Hi Rick and all, Regarding recent Northern Gannet activity on Long Island, Pat and I witnessed an interesting spectacle on Friday 14 April, at Orient Harbor, a sheltered part of Peconic Bay inside the North Fork.
>From the East Marion causeway, we counted 175 Northern Gannets to the south, >over Orient Harbor, resting on the water and actively feeding. Later, from the >Orient-New London ferry we counted 70 more Gannets in NYS waters, and at least >210 in CT waters--far more than are usually present in this area. It has been noted before in this forum that this species often invades bays and sounds in our region during April, in pursuit of migrating fish, but the phenomenon is nevertheless very localized and unpredictable. Bob and Michelle Grover did not see Gannets on the same transit on Saturday, and the Grovers and we looked for them but saw very few on our return trip on Monday. I obtained some rough digiscoped video of the feeding behavior on Friday and posted it here: https://flic.kr/p/TMPydg https://flic.kr/p/TMPwJz Shai Mitra Bay Shore ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Frederick Kedenburg [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 14, 2017 9:34 AM To: NYS BIRDS Subject: [nysbirds-l] N Gannets 4/14/17 7:30 AM >From the beach along Dune Road in Westhampton Beach A steady stream of Northern Gannets traveling east to west. Traveling in flocks of various sizes of 10 to 30. There must have been a hundred or so in total. -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
