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| photo by Sandy Paci |
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| Massive scoters flock off the Point, by Rob Bate |
Leader Rob Bate
list compiled by Sandy Paci
1. GREATER WHITE-FRONTED GOOSE (1 - Riverhead, from Reeves Road)
2. PINK-FOOTED GOOSE GOOSE (1 - Riverhead, from Reeves Road)
3. ROSS’S GOOSE (1 - Riverhead, from Reeves Road)
4. CACKLING GOOSE (1 - Sagaponack/Daniel’s Lane area)
5. Canada Goose
6. Brant
7. Mute Swan
8. TUNDRA SWAN (2 – Hook Pond, Easthampton)
9. Gadwall
10. American Wigeon
11. American Black Duck
12. Mallard
13. Northern Pintail
14. Ring-necked Duck
15. Greater Scaup
16. Common Eider
17. Surf Scoter (10s of thousands off Montauk Point)
18. Black Scoter (10s of thousands off Montauk Point)
19. White-winged Scoter
20. Long-tailed Duck
21. Bufflehead
22. Common Goldeneye
23. BARROW’S GOLDENEYE (at least one male – Montauk Lake)
24. Hooded Merganser
25. Red-Breasted Merganser
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| photo by Sandy Paci |
26. Common Merganser
27. Ruddy Duck
28. Common Loon
29. Horned Grebe
30. Northern Gannett
31. Great Blue Heron
32. Red-tailed Hawk
33. Black-bellied Plover
34. Sanderling
35. American Woodcock (possibly 2, heard “peenting” at dusk – Camp Hero parking lot)
36. Bonaparte’s Gull
37. Ring-billed Gull
38. Herring Gull
39. ICELAND GULL (3 – Shinnecock dredging area)
40. Lesser Black-backed Gull (1 – beach below Montauk Point)
41. GLAUCOUS GULL (1 – Shinnecock Inlet & dredging area, presumably same bird)
42. Greater Black-backed Gull
43. Rock Pigeon
44. Mourning Dove
45. SNOWY OWL (2 – along Dune Road)
46. Blue Jay
47. American Crow
48. Common Raven
49. Carolina Wren
50. American Robin
51. Northern Mockingbird
52. European Starling
53. Yellow-rumped Warbler
54. Song Sparrow
54. Song Sparrow
55. Northern Cardinal
56. Red-winged Blackbird
57. Common Grackle
58. House Sparrow
59.Red-throated Loon
60.White-throated Sparrow
59.Red-throated Loon
60.White-throated Sparrow
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| photo by Sandy Paci |
