It was wet and windy on the eastern end of Long Island today. Foggy and rainy in the morning, improving a little bit in the afternoon. At Montuak Point (Suffolk Co.) a good number of shearwaters were passing close to shore some pausing to feed alongside the hordes of terns. A 1-hr count looking south produced 324 *Cory's Shearwater* (conservative), 59 *Great Shearwater*, 3 *Sooty Shearwater* and 1 *Manx Shearwater*. The highlight of the session was a pair of *Pomarine Jaegers* that came past the Point then drifted through the Cory's before disappearing into the bank of mist hovering a couple of miles offshore. Visibility on the north side was very poor but there were 70 or more Cory's feeding with terns about 1/2 mile of shore, coincident with the edge of more fog.
Common Terns seem to be everywhere with many roosting on the north side of the peninsula and feeding on the south side. Flocks could be seen shuttling overland pretty much everywhere I stopped. Viewing from a number of vantages on Napeague Bay I tallied 46 *Black Terns* with a couple more at Montauk Point. Visible shorebird migration included some Least Sandpipers coming ashore at the Point and a tight flock of 40 *Lesser Yellowlegs*flying SW over Theodore Roosevelt County Park. -- Angus Wilson New York City & The Springs, NY, USA -- 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/ --
