We birded Caumsett State Park today as part of the Northern Nassau CBC. Highlights of the day's birding was an American White Pelican seen in the late afternoon flying east over Lloyd Harbor towards Huntington Bay. Perhaps this is the same bird that was seen in early November at Lloyd Point by Annie McIntyre. Other birds of interest was a Nelson's Sparrow that unexpectedly popped up in the Spartina grass at the Caumsett marsh, a flyby White-winged Crossbill along the beach, a Cackling Goose in the hundreds of Canada Geese (comparison photos of the two geese are on my flickr site), and an Eastern Phoebe found by Jerry & Beth Platt at the Seminary on the east side of West Neck Road in Lloyd Harbor Village. It was a great weather day for birding and the birds cooperated.
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