On a wide ranging day of birding yesterday I visited Southard Town Park for the Dickcissel which obliged by sitting on the fencing around the tennis courts. I then headed to Montauk and along the east jetty to Montauk Harbor had both the Glaucous and Iceland gull. Also had remarkably close-up views of two grey seals in the harbor, adjacent to the inlet, rubbing and biting each other (courtship or mating behavior?). At the Point I could not relocate the King eider seen the week before but I have no doubt it was among the very large Common eider - scoter flocks.
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