We spent a few hours birding the eastern portion of Dune Road before heading to the Calverton Grasslands in the early afternoon. At Shinnecock Inlet there were over four hundred Common Eider, as well as an adult Lesser Black-backed Gull on a sandbar north of the inlet. Our FOS Clapper Rail was feeding in one of the few open marsh ditches on Dune Road east of Dockers Restaurant. We did not see the Snowy Owl reported last week. At the Calverton Grasslands (the old Grumman Property) there was one Rough-legged Hawk, one American Kestrel, two Northern Harriers, and six Red-tailed Hawks.
Ken & Sue Feustel -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html 3) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
