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Subject: FW: [nysbirds-l] Scissor-tail Flycatcher, Montauk, Suffolk Co.
Date: 10/20/18 10:05:51 PM
From: "Shaibal Mitra" <[email protected]>
To: "Patricia Lindsay ([email protected])"
<[email protected]>
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From: Shaibal Mitra
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2018 9:24 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: RE: [nysbirds-l] Scissor-tail Flycatcher, Montauk, Suffolk Co.
The Scissor-tailed Flycatcher remained in the fields south of Montauk
Highway for several hours, where it was admired by several shifts of
birders. It was generally quite cooperative, feeding actively and
perching on the fencelines, but occasionally it would retreat into the
trees along the east side of the hollow for five or ten minutes, where
it was generally not possible to see (eagle-eyed Pat was able to discern
it in this context a couple of times, on different perches). It was
still behaving this way when Pat and I returned from the point at 3:30.
About fifteen minutes later, however, it moved north to the trees at the
northeast corner of the field, paused briefly, then flew high and north
across the road. Those of us who were present were able to re-find it
across the road, perching on a snag in the south pasture of the Dude
Ranch, but it remained there only briefly. Before 4:00, it flew high and
out of sight over the hill to the north, perhaps landing in one of the
more northerly pastures of the Dude Ranch. We scanned what we could see
from the County Park overlooking Deep Hollow, but the northern portion
of that property is being used for pasturing horses, so we couldn't walk
north far enough to look into the more remote pastures.
There was a lot of bird activity in Montauk, from passerine migrants to
seabirds. Several hundred Cory's Shearwaters were feeding off the point
and in the Sound north and west to at least the Lake Montauk Inlet, and
we saw four Parasitic Jaegers.
Shai Mitra
Bay Shore
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From: [email protected]
[[email protected]] on behalf of Patricia
Lindsay [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2018 12:46 PM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Montauk, Suffolk Co.
Showing well in previously described location. A scope is recommended
for optimal views.
Sent from my iPhone
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From: [email protected]
[[email protected]] on behalf of Patricia
Lindsay [[email protected]]
Sent: Saturday, October 20, 2018 10:59 AM
To: [email protected]
Subject: [nysbirds-l] Scissor-tailed Flycatcher, Montauk, Suffolk Co.
Joe Giunta reports the bird is at Deep Hollow on the south side of
Montauk Highway.
Sent from my iPhone
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