Today Heydi Lopes, Keir Randall and I birded Coney Island Beach and Coney Island Creek. While scanning Gravesend Bay from Coney Island Creek Park, Keir spotted what appeared to be a white-winged gull about 1/4 mile to the West. We walked down the beach to get closer looks and confirmed the ID as a 2nd year Iceland Gull. The gull was spending a lot of time in the water near green buoy #1, fairly close to shore, at these coordinates:
40°34'58.74"N 74° 0'19.95"W It was observed between 1:20pm and 2:37pm moving from the above location, Northeast, towards the end of Calvert Vaux Park and back. If you go by car there is parking along Bayview Avenue near West 37th Street. Good birding, Rob http://citybirder.blogspot.com -- 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/ --
