Sorry for the late post, but I just got back to the rest of my photos from yesterday's Jones Beach/Point Lookout trip. Based on the photos, it appears that we may have found the possible "Gray-bellied" (or Black?) Brant reported by Michael McBrien. It was swimming with typical Atlantic Brant in the Jones Inlet on the Point Lookout side of the channel. I have posted a photo in my eBird Album on Flickr (at https://www.flickr.com/photos/awells48/albums). Sorry for the poor quality, but the bird was distance and the sky was very overcast.
What caught our attention first was the much smaller size of this bird when compared to the Atlantic Brant with which it was keeping company. The difference was so apparent that members of our group jokingly referred to this bird as a Cackling Brant! Alan Wells -- 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/ --
