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| Yawning Snowy Owl photo'd by Charles tang |
Leader Adelia Harrison
Hi Peter
I wish there was an easy way to get a day list out of eBird!
The attached photos have the names of the photographer in the file name for crediting.
Recap:
We had a full trip with a waiting list for a full day at Nickerson Beach, Pt Lookout, and Jones Beach. Although sunny, there was an unrelenting, biting wind for the entire day that made it hard to hold our scopes or take photos, not to mention being all around unpleasant. Nonetheless we had 12 fearless birders whose enthusiasm and good spiritedness overpowered the lousy conditions.
We got to see TWO Snowy Owls. A female at Nickerson, and a male at Jones Beach. The female kept opening her mouth as though she were yawning and we all are wondering what that was about. Was she trying to cough up a pellet? Charles has a great photo of it.
At Pt Lookout on a western jetty there was over 1,000 Dunlin who kept lifting up into the air and moving as a single entity like murmurating starlings. It was incredible. Mixed among them were probably dozens of Purple Sandpiper and just a handful of Black-bellied Plover. There were also over 100 Long-tailed ducks at Jones Beach West End. We only had a few Black Scoter and just one White-winged Scoter and only one Common Eider. Five Harlequin Ducks have been at the jetty at Pt Lookout all season and they did not let us down.
Many people had multiple lifers. The Harlequin Ducks especially were lifers for several in attendance.
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| Harlequin Ducks photo'd by Terry Kim |
List:
| American Black Duck (Anas rubripes) |
| American Robin (Turdus migratorius) |
| Black Scoter (Melanitta americana) |
| Black-bellied Plover (Pluvialis squatarola) |
| Bufflehead (Bucephala albeola) |
| Common Eider (Somateria mollissima) |
| Common Loon (Gavia immer) |
| Cooper's Hawk (Accipiter cooperii) |
| Dunlin (Calidris alpina) |
| Great Black-backed Gull (Larus marinus) |
| Greater Scaup (Aythya marila) |
| Harlequin Duck (Histrionicus histrionicus) |
| Herring Gull (Larus argentatus) |
| Horned Grebe (Podiceps auritus) |
| Horned Lark (Eremophila alpestris) |
| Long-tailed Duck (Clangula hyemalis) |
| Mallard (Anas platyrhynchos) |
| Northern Harrier (Circus hudsonius) |
| Northern Mockingbird (Mimus polyglottos) |
| Purple Sandpiper (Calidris maritima) |
| Red-breasted Merganser (Mergus serrator) |
| Red-throated Loon (Gavia stellata) |
| Ring-billed Gull (Larus delawarensis) |
| Sanderling (Calidris alba) |
| Snowy Owl (Bubo scandiacus) |
| White-winged Scoter (Melanitta deglandi) |
| Yellow-rumped Warbler (Setophaga coronata) |
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| Black-bellied Plover photo'd by Barbara Schelkle |
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| flying Long tailed Ducks photo'd by Barbara Schelkle |
