Not to be a buzzkill but just want to remind people that while situations like this are great for birders they are very bad for the birds. While walking into the beach I was literally hit by a Great Shearwater near the entrance. Talking to a beach employee he told me that 25 were taken in to a rehabber on Long Beach and we found at least 10 exhausted birds that they were holding over night at Nickerson. All birds seemed well fed and they just had no energy left. Near dark I took 2 more out of the surf and put them behind little sand castles to shelter them from the wind. Very sad to see.
During my time seawatching I had the following. 75+ Great Shearwater 5 Corey's 1 Manx 2 Sooty 1 Parastic Jaeger came onshore at sundown and buzzed the east Tern colony. Also had an adult Arctic Tern on the beach of the east Tern colony as well. 5 Roseate Terns sitting on beach Isaac Grant Senior Loan Officer -- 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/ --
