About 70 Royal Terns were present on the bar at Pike's Beach this morning. Large numbers of Black Skimmer were there as well, with good numbers of skimmers at the Cupsogue flats as well. A brief seawatch at Cupsogue was highlighted by 2 Cory's Shearwaters that lingered dor a while straight out from the boardwalk at the pavilion.
A video showing part of the group can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/my_videos_edit?ns=1&video_id=8rJR3qmkFzA In the "lack of sightings" category, no Lesser Black backed Gulls were detected in the gull flocks at Smith's Point on Sat or Sunday, or at the Heckscher State Park lots on Saturday. Mike Cooper Ridge, LI, NY -- 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/ --
