Shai Mitra and I traveled to RI today for Easter, gnashing teeth, tearing hair, and keening (Shai is, contrary to all expectation, one eighth Irish and prone to keening) about missing a possible/probable slingshot event on our Long Island beaches today, given the favorable weather conditions for just such an event.
As it turns out, multiple reports of early trans-gulf migrants from coastal Rhode Island today (E. Kingbird, Indigo Bunting, Blue Grosbeak, Scarlet Tanager, Summer Tanager, and Rose-breasted Grosbeak) proved our predictions to be true, and we're wondering if anyone on coastal LI found any evidence of this event, other than my 6 year old great nephew, Orion, who called us from his grandfather's house in Shirley to report a Rose-breasted Grosbeak. Patricia Lindsay and Shai Mitra Bay Shore -- 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/ --
