A cold brisk morning made birding difficult, but there were a couple of good birds. A Cattle Egret was along the Coast Guard Station entrance road around 9:45. A photographer told me it had been seen a little earlier closer to the CG Station. However when I left 10 minutes later it was goneAt the east end of the Bay parkway, where it turns north to the Wantagh Parkway or straight into the parking lot for concerts by field 5, there was an interesting Blue Grosbeak in transitional plumage - blue head, white throat, and mostly brown body. It was feeding on the lawn near a female Indigo Bunting and a Chipping Sparrow about 10:15.An earlier walk in Massapequa Preserve wasn't very productive - only a couple of Yellow warblers by the athletic fields and a White-eyed Vireo well southwest of them, along the unpaved wooded trail about 1/4 mile north of the school ( Cleveland Avenue?) -- 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/ --
