We started our day at Cupsogue County Park, where we saw more scoters in ten minutes than we saw in two and a half hours of birding at Montauk Pt. the other day. Highlights included a flock of forty-seven White-winged Crossbills with about three Red Crossbills in the pines at the west end of the parking lot. As we left Cupsogue and headed east on Dune Road an American Biittern flew out of one of the salt marshes. We then proceeded north to Hulse Landing Road, passing the very sad scene of thousands of waterlogged cars parked on the old Grumman airfield. We stopped at the power line cut and were instantly greeted by numerous sparrows flying up from the patches of brussel sprouts. We recorded eight species of sparrows, including Vesper Sparrow (2), White-crowned (5), and Chipping (1). We concluded our trip at a foggy Eastport Pond, which yielded a single Cackling Goose before the fog worsened. Lastly, an eagle-eyed Pat Lindsay found a Wilson's Snipe on the south side of Montauk Highway.
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