You can watch a very short video of the gannets here: https://vimeo.com/159684550
Rob On Mar 20, 2016, at 10:20 AM, Rob Jett <[email protected]> wrote: > Yesterday at around noon Heydi Lopes and I were at Dead Horse Bay in > Brooklyn. From Dead Horse Point looking west Heydi shouted to me when she > spotted the same phenomenon. A huge flock of gannets were diving, sometimes > en masse, in the bay just offshore between Manhattan Beach and Coney Island. > It was difficult to get an accurate count, but it was easily several hundred > individuals. Curious what fish were running that lured them from the ocean > into the bay. It was the largest gathering of gannets that I've seen in Kings > County. I tried to digiscope a short video but the distortion in the results > make it difficult to watch. > > Good birding, > > Rob > > http://citybirder.blogspot.com > @thecitybirder > >> Subject: Gannet swarm in Raritan Bay >> Date: Sat Mar 19 2016 16:33 pm >> From: hosesbroadbill AT gmail.com >> >> While not rare, there are currently 1000's of Gannets in Raritan Bay. >> I am at the end of Oakwood Beach in Staten Island and everywhere I scan >> the sky and water is filled with Gannets. Mostly distant. Off of Jersey >> (Perth Amboy) there are clouds of them. >> Very cool to see. >> >> Isaac Grant >> Senior Loan Officer > -- 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/ --
