We arrived at JBWR at 6:45AM. We quickly located the Barrow's Goldeneye on the West Pond in the company of nearly one hundred Common Goldeneye. The Barrow's flew out to the bay (southwest direction) with the Common Goldeneye at 7:30AM. While searching through the rafts of waterfowl on the northwest side of the West Pond a Virginia Rail made an appearance in an opening in the Phragmites. We then headed over to the East Pond where we missed the Eurasian Wigeon, although twenty-six American Wigeon were at the south end of the pond. We also observed a second winter Iceland Gull on the East Pond.
On a related bird note, on Sunday morning at Sunken Meadow State Park there were eighteen Great Egrets feeding in Sunken Meadow Creek west of the foot bridge. Ken & Sue Feustel -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
