I did a seawatch at two different times, both from Flying Point Beach in South Hampton, Long Island yesterday. The first, from about 6:20 to 10:45pm, the other, from about 1:00 to 3:30pm. The standout was an eastbound adult BROWN BOOBY flying fast a low. Also notable were two birds that did not make it onto either checklist. I had one distant pale pteradroma type species that popped up from behind a very large wave- what I would give to have been able to confirm that one! and a pair of probable Black-capped Petrels. The latter, while observed by others along the south shore a little west and east of me, just didn't provide enough info to be clinched.
PM watch: 1 Surf Scoter 2 Great Shearwater 1 Sooty Shearwater 3 Manx Shearwater 3 shearwater sp. 238 Double-crested Cormorant 17 Sanderling 1 Parasitic Jaeger 21 Laughing Gull 7 Herring Gull 14 Great Black-backed Gull 6 Least Tern 7 Black Tern 17 Common Tern AM watch: 27 Mute Swan 9 Mallard 1 Surf Scoter 2 Surf/Black Scoter 2 Sooty Shearwater 5 shearwater sp. 1 Brown Booby -- adult 3 Northern Gannet 32 Double-crested Cormorant 3 Sanderling 15 Semipalmated Sandpiper 3 Parasitic Jaeger -- 1 dark juv., 1 light adult, 1 dark adult type 3 jaeger sp. 9 Laughing Gull 4 Ring-billed Gull 5 Herring Gull 30 Great Black-backed Gull 25 Least Tern 9 Black Tern 45 Common Tern 25 Sterna sp. 2000+ Tree Swallow 1 Eastern Towhee Nadir Souirgi, Inwood, NYC Sent from my iPhone -- 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/ --
