As a follow-up to Shai's post, it's worthy to note my findings from yesterday (9-19-17) while car birding the south shore between 5:30-6:45 covering these locations respectively: RMSP (Fields 2 and 5), Captree SP (all lots) and JBWE lots. I tallied a total of 25 LBBG's at these locations, though none were found at Captree. 12 birds were found at Moses and 13 were at JBWE. As the breakdown in compliance to age specifics, these are the results:
HY (3) SY (2) TY (7) 4Y (5) Adults (8) 7 of the adults were at Jones Beach. Even in fading dull light conditions, these birds were as immaculate as I've ever seen for this species, all appearing to be in high breeding plumage to the max. Very impressive! Of herring, GBBG and RBGulls: numbers added up to about 300 total. Roughly 40% GBBG, 35% Herring and 25% RB Gull. Only 4 or 5 Laughing Gulls were in any of these lots, but a good number of them were seen moving east while heading north on the Meadowbrook Pkwy just past the tolls along with about 15 Forster's Terns. Other interesting sightings were 12 Killdeer hunkered down near the entrance booth at JBWE and most interestingly, a Red-throated Loon was struggling against the wind flying east on the bayside at Cedar Beach as seen from Ocean Pkwy, giving the impression of it being almost suspended in flight. Bobby Berlingeri Elmont, NY -- 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/ --
