We went north to Cold Spring Harbor this morning around 8:00AM and found a group of birders eyeing the Tufted Duck. Satisfied with the looks we had of the bird we moved on to Bayville in the hope that the Barrow's Goldeneye might be present - no luck. Our next stop was an icy Shu Swamp where a short walk yielded two Rusty Blackbirds and a Winter Wren. We then moved on to Caumsett State Park where we searched through some 600 Canada Geese for anything unusual with no result. I then headed south to Massapequa Lake on Montauk Highway where a Eurasian Wigeon had been previously observed. The lake was mostly frozen but there was some open water on the east side of the lake where the Eurasian Wigeon was quickly located with about a half-dozen Common Mergansers and ten American Wigeon.
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/ --
