[nysbirds-l] East End Storm Birding
I went out early this morning to confirm what I already knew: the storm was a flop in terms of birds. I visited Georgica, Sagaponack and Mecox Bay in eastern Suffolk Co. The highlight was undoubtedly bumping into Shai Mitra and Pat Lindsay. The most interesting bird was a lone PECTORAL SANDPIPER at Mecox, and a SORA that had been found dead by Marilee Foster at her farm in Sagaponack. Vicki Bustamante found an AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVER at the Deep Hollow Ranch in Montauk. As I watched the radar last night, I could see that the storm veered east. As a result the winds began from the northeast (not the east that had been predicted) and never got higher than 25mph at Montauk (highest sustained winds were in the teens overnight). The storm was so anemic that it actually enlarged the beaches along the south shore. Better luck next time. Hugh Hugh McGuinness The Ross School 18 Goodfriend Drive East Hampton, NY 11937 hmcguinn...@ross.org -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
RE: [nysbirds-l] East End Storm Birding
To add to Hugh's post: At Montauk Point the wind was blowing strongly from the west by 7:30 a.m. While storm birds were a bust, we did have a few notables there including: A CASPIAN TERN; a WHIMBREL that flew in off the ocean and landed on the beach on the north side of the point; a WHITE-WINGED SCOTER; 4 COMMON EIDERS; and 9 BLACK TERNS. There was some land bird movement, highlighted by a flock of 15 BOBOLINKS. At the east side of the Montauk Harbor Jetties (Gin Beach) a ROSEATE TERN was with about 150 Common Terns, and a Red Bat was flying east over the water. In early afternoon, the only shorebirds on the sod fields in Manorville were 45 Black-bellied Plovers. Observers: Seth Ausubel, Brent Bomkamp, Stella Miller -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/nysbirds-l@cornell.edu/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
