Joe DiCostanzo and I combined our observations and maps for the Bridled Tern today. This includes my distant photos of the tern from the ship, plus maps, at my blog (trips33.blogspot.com). Check it out (and Joe’s excellent site inwoodbirder.blogspot.com) before you try for the Bridled Tern so you know exactly where it is likely to be and how difficult it will be to see it. The lighthouse cruises do pass close to this area of Great Gull Island, and I have discussed it today with the ferry company which runs these trips so they might slow down at this area to give you time to look and photograph, although this is from a distance. See trips33.blogspot.com for many details. Good luck if you go to try for it. The distance makes it challenging. Tom Robben.
============= Subject: Bridled Tern and public cruises to get there Date: Mon Aug 6 2018 21:39 pm From: robben99 AT gmail.com Re the Bridled Tern, there is another similar catamaran cruise which departs from Orient Point NY, making it easier for NY birders to get on board. It is the Long Island Lights Cruise and includes slow passes near Plum, Great Gull and Little Gull Islands. It runs August 9-12, 16-19, 23-26, 30-31 plus September 1-3. Thats it. See this website for details: www.lighthouse.cruises � And Joe, if you could email me a map of that corner of the island, with exactly where the bird hangs out (it was hard for me to see those details as we passed at a distance) I could post them for everyone to see your map. Thanks. Tom Robben. robben99 AT gmail.com -- 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/ --
