I drove to Smith Point Park( Suffolk County Long Island) today to renew my permit to drive on the beach this year so as to do a little surf fishing and birding ( the Ocean is beautiful along the beach) but they did not have these 2012 permits ready yet, so last year's permits were still good. I drove from Smith Point, East to Moriches Inlet (5 miles?) right along the shore and saw about 15 Black Scoters, 4 Surf Scoters, !2 Long-tail ducks,3 Red-throated Loons, 1 Common Loon,1 Red-necked Grebe,15 Sanderlings, and to my surprise a Male Green-winged Teal about 30 yards off in the ocean,just the other side of the breakers. I took pictures of all of these, some good ,some not so good. I do not yet know how to put them up on site on the internet for general viewing, but if anyone wants a picture, I can E-Mail to you. The Green-winged teal was still there when I drove back west from the Inlet to Smith Point. Andy Murphy --
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