Hi Everyone, I was going through the pictures I took last Thursday from Point Lookout and Bayville,,,I'm asking for help identifying a few..the first are gulls from Point Lookout which I'm fairly certain are Bonaparte Gulls. For some reason the first one is throwing me off - it was behaving differently than the rest. The others I listed "Goldeneyes?" were taken from Bayville a few hundred feet out from shore. At the time I identified a lot of Common Goldeneyes and White Winged Scoters on the water. This one is throwing me off - it's the same bird - I'm guessing a female Common Goldeneye. It seems to have an "extra" white spot between it's eyes and bill. Please note this is the first time I've photographed these birds so it might just be inexperience that's making it hard for me to ID them.
Thanks in advance, Rob in Massapequa http://longislandbirding.blogspot.com/2014/01/unidentified.html -- 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/ --
