A small group of birders this morning looked unsuccessfully for the Barnacle Goose at Belmont Lake State Park.
As a consolation, we enjoyed looks at Wood Ducks (tallied at 19), Iceland Gull (dark immature) and a very neat looking Pintail x Mallard Hybrid picked out by Brent Bomkamp as it tried to hide amongst the Mallards. Later on at Massapequa Park, a Wilson's Snipe flushed providing good looks while in flight. With the usual trouble makers further out east *(see Shai Mitra's post) *I took it upon myself to try and raise some ruckus. Unfortunately, despite a careful search from Jones Beach West End II to Robert Moses, I was unable to turn up anything of note. Cheers! "Don't start none, won't be none" ~ Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones Sent from somewhere in the field using my mobile device! Andrew Baksh www.birdingdude.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
