Ernst has posted the following suggestions regarding parking to the WhatsApp groups:
"Being that tomorrow is Saturday there will for sure be a lot of people chasing the Mottled Duck. It's a sensitive site with limited street side parking in a residential neighborhood. A lot of residents will be home tomorrow. Please be respectful of them. The police and public safety drove by a few times today so neighbors have probably already started calling. The bird has most often be viewed from the area where I posted the pin earlier. The view from there is through phrags, so birders have tended to get a bit bunched up there, standing in the road. Cars can speed down that road, so please be careful. It would be best if no one parks close to that pin, especially not directly across from the best viewing spots where everyone will congregate. It will become a tight squeeze for cars driving through. Parking a few blocks away on side streets could help. There is a parking lot behind a closed bank at 400 Montauk Highway where you can park without any hassle and it's only about a 4 block walk to the pin location. Across the street from the bank is a Stop n Shop with a lot of parking. Be really wary of traffic if you're crossing away from the traffic light. Thanks! The MODU and the female MALL it's paired with were often out of view for long periods of time throughout the day, but when they came out into the open, they were quite accommodating to viewers and relatively close." ________________________________________ From: [email protected] [[email protected]] on behalf of Shaibal Mitra [[email protected]] Sent: Friday, April 8, 2022 10:45 AM To: NYSBIRDS ([email protected]) Subject: [nysbirds-l] Mottled Duck Ketcham's Creek, Southwest Suffolk County Ernst Mutchnick found what he suspected as a Mottled Duck at Ketcham's Creek, southwest Suffolk County, on the evening of Tuesday, 5 April. This is a tricky identification, given hybridization between Mallards and Black Ducks, and between Mallards and Mottled Ducks, among the varied contenders among Big Brown Ducks. Efforts to re-find it throughout the day on Wed and Thu were unsuccessful, but this male bird was present (with a female Mallard) this morning, and it has been visible off and on throughout the morning. The bird appears quite typical of the nominate, Florida subspecies, showing the characteristic black gape mark, a pale face with very fine streaking on the upper cheek and a clear throat; a very narrow white rear border to the speculum (and no visible white at the front edge), and no signs of whiteness or curliness in the tail feathers. Photos are available here: https://flic.kr/p/2nd8cNZ This is a sensitive site with limited streetside parking in a residential neighborhood. Please be careful and courteous. Shai Mitra Bay Shore -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ -- -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME.htm http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES.htm 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://birding.aba.org/maillist/NY01 Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
