[nysbirds-l] Dune road - Hampton bays
1 snowy owl on Dune road 1 horned grebe at Tiana Many Northern Harriers along the marshes and several Loons in the Inlet -- 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/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/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] Dune Road - Hampton Bays
This morning I took a drive down Dune Road. On my way toward Hampton Bays I spotted an Adult Cooper's Hawk on a powerline. Two hooded mergansers were near the Quogue/East Quogue border on a small pool on the north side of the road. Other highlights include: American Bittern (near triton lane), belted kingfishers, 2 great egrets and three great blue herons. Well off-shore, near the 1-mile buoy were 2-3 huge rafts containing thousands of birds. My guess is eiders or scoters, but they were too far offshore to tell through my camera or bins. Photos of some of the birds including the bittern can be seen here: http://birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com/2013/01/american-bittern-on-dune-road.html Additionally, I saw on LIbirds.com that a Purple Gallinule was picked up approximately 70 miles offshore by some fisherman and brought to the rehabber in Hampton Bays... that bird must have really been confused swimming around with all of the puffins out there. -- - Luke Ormand, East Patchogue www.birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com www.wildlongisland.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Dune Road ,Hampton Bays, NY
Big flock of Ruddy Tunstones on the bay side, but saw no Horseshoe Crabs, Big flocks of Dunlin on the Ocean beach, together with sanderlings, semipalmated sandpipers,black bellied plovers. Saw my FOY Short- billed Dowitcher up close in the ditch on the bay side. Andy Murphy -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Dune Road - Hampton Bays/East Quogue
This afternoon I took a trip to Dune Road which was free and clear except for a massive puddle to the East of Tiana which kept me from driving through with my car (trucks can pass no problem). Birds were scarce, but of good quality. American Bittern, Semi-palmated Sandpiper, Northern Harrier, Sharp-shinned Hawk and a Black-crowned Night Heron. Photos of birds can be seen here: http://birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com/2013/02/dune-road-quality-over-quantity.html -- - Luke www.birdsoflongisland.blogspot.com www.wildlongisland.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
[nysbirds-l] Dune Road (Hampton Bays to East Quogue) - After the Rain
Following up on Ken Feustel's observations barrier beach report: along Dune Road this afternoon I found three Baltimore Orioles and three Brown Thrashers within a few hundred feet of each other, along the Old Ponquogue Bridge boat-launch road. A Common Loon was under the bridge, along side the parking lot, and two Nashville Warblers were just west of the traffic light at the south end of the bridge. At Tiana ocean-side pavilion, I saw a Great-Crested Flycatcher. Indigo Bunting were seen near Neptune's and also on the front lawn of house #81, where they were seen over the weekend. I also noted great numbers of White-throated Sparrows, though not the numbers that Ken reported. There were at least 3 flocks of 10-20 birds in each flock. The only shorebirds I saw were Willets, Killdeer, and Greater Yellow-legs. Eileen Schwinn -- 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/ --
