>From East Hampton on the South Fork of Long Island (Suffolk Co.) the seabird flight described in posts from Ken, Corey, Seth and Shai was much in evidence this morning, with persistent onshore winds and bands of rain pushing the migration up against the shoreline. Peter Polshek was on station at Main Beach from 7:35 AM until early afternoon, being joined at different times by Jim Ash, Hugh McGuinness and myself. Around 1:30 pm the wind shift to the west and dropped, allowing thick mist to roll in, bringing the seawatch to an abrupt end. Besides the steady stream of shearwaters including unusually high numbers of Manx Shearwaters, highlights included an adult LONG-TAILED JAEGER (possibly the bird seen c.3 hours earlier off Fire Island) and a LEACH'S STORM-PETREL. Many of the birds were quite close inshore offering good views. I don't have all the numbers yet but the current totals for the tubenoses and jaegers during this period (and all traveling east) are:
Sooty Shearwater - 2,176+ Cory's Shearwater - 65+ Great Shearwater - 8+ Manx Shearwater - 27+ Wilson's Storm-Petrel - 54+ LEACH'S STORM-PETREL - 1 (@12:40 PM, seen well) Parasitic Jaeger - 9+ LONG-TAILED JAEGER - 1 (adult @12:27 PM) unidentified jaeger - 2 Angus Wilson New York City/Springs -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
