Today, most of my time in the field was spent taking pictures of common birds with my new camera, delighting in it's "zooming" properties !
This morning, the first 1/8 mile of shoreline w/o Shinnicock Inlet hosted a huge number of birds, as they fed on a huge mass of clams & "snails", that lay scattered over the beach. Most of the birds involved were Gulls (Herring, Ring-billed, Great Black-backed, and 1 Imm. Iceland), with some ducks & shorebirds (1 Dunlin & 1 Ruddy Turnstone) making up the remaining participants. This afternoon, on the e/s Roanoke Ave, just s/o Reeves Ave, Riverhead, I flushed a T.V. off a "road kill", which I think was the remains of a large Raccoon. Cheers, Bob -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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/ --