We stopped by Belmont Lake State Park this morning on our way up to the north shore in the hopes of seeing Derek Roger's Barnacle Goose. It took almost an hour, but eventually we found the bird sleeping on the ice with Canada Geese. While not in the class of Lazy Point Larry (the long-lived Lesser Black-backed Gull annual in winter at Napeague Harbor), this is roughly the fifth year this bird has shown up at Belmont. We moved on to Caumsett State Park where our first bird of note was a rugged Eastern Phoebe viewed as our car climbed the entrance road. It took a while to find the immature Red-headed Woodpecker on the west side of the Fishing Road, present since late November. The difficult in finding the bird was due in part to the presence of an immature Red-shouldered Hawk in a tree on the edge of the marsh. Photos of the woodpecker and hawk are on my flickr site. Other birds of interest were fifty-eight Ruddy Turnstones, Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, Brown Thrasher, Cedar Waxwing, Rufous-sided Towhee, and Fox Sparrow.
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