Greetings, everyone! The Southern Nassau County Christmas Bird Count will be held this season on Saturday, January 2nd and we look forward to another successful count. Last year we recorded 132 species, slightly above average for this count, despite a rainy afternoon.
The compilation dinner, always a special occasion, will be at our traditional spot--Otto's Sea Grill--located at 271 Woodcleft Avenue in Freeport, along the Miracle Mile and very near the Captain Lou boatslips where the SeeLife Paulagics trips used to leave from. The cost for dinner is the same as last year, $28 per person (including tax and gratuity). The manager, Derek, remembers fondly that he worked these "birdwatcher" parties back in the 80s, and has agreed to hold the price at least for this year, despite the heavy increase in insurance costs after the storms of recent years. Dinner includes choice of soup or salad, entree choices of Sliced Skirt Steak with Burgundy Mushroom Sauce, Rigatoni ala Vodka, Stuffed Basa (like flounder) in Lemon Butter Sauce, and of course, Stuffed Cornish Hen. A choice of desserts and coffee/tea is also included. Please bring cash for dinner. If you have a relatively set routine on this count, please contact your party leader to arrange meeting times and coverage duties (see below). If you are new to the count or unsure where to go, please contact Pat or Shai. Looking forward to seeing you there! Pat and Shai Parties: Atlantic Rich Kelly [email protected] Short Ken Feustel [email protected] Loop Sharon Brody [email protected] Tobay Tom Burke [email protected] Hempstead Joe Giunta [email protected] Five Towns Sean Sime [email protected] Baldwin Shai Mitra [email protected] Massapequa Mike Bochnik [email protected] Mitchell Jim Browne [email protected] Boat John Zarudsky jdzarudsky@yahoocom 631-241-0749 Shai 516-662-5204 Pat [email protected] -- 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/ --
