A number of birders have been seeing black-legged kittiwakes
throughout the day today at Ft. Tilden, from the Fisherman's Parking
Lot. This morning from about 7:30-9:30, I observed at least 10 birds
in the area, mostly immatures. Like yesterday, the birds were hanging
around about 100-200 yards from shore. They were fishing, being
chased by larger gulls, and sitting on the water with Bonaparte's
flocks. There was no apparent migration, however. Also like
yesterday, there were thousands more gulls way offshore, so kittiwake
numbers were likely much greater than 10. Shai Mitra told me he
observed about 30 kittiwakes from Robert Moses State Park this
morning, also just hanging around and not visibly migrating.
Seth Ausubel
Forest Hills, NY
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