At around noon today, I saw a Red-necked Grebe at Coney Island, near Coney Island Pier. It was actively diving, out around the green #3 buoy, which is to the SE of the Pier.
There was also one on January 10 off the western end of Coney Island Creek, towards Norton Point, not tremendously far from Coney Island Pier. Also, a sighting not from today, but of interest to this list is the adult "Kumlien's" Iceland Gull that has been roosting at Brooklyn Bridge Park, on the pilings just south of Pier 1. I saw it as recently as two nights ago (January 27th), and it seems to be regular at that location in the evening. This park is very cool in general, and has ~ 3,000 gulls roosting there every night (200-300 Herring, mostly at Pier 1, with the rest being Ring-billed, mostly between Pier 3 & 5). Good Birding -Doug Gochfeld. Brooklyn, NY. -- 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/ --
