Thursday Jan. 22nd brought grey skies and drizzle.
Twelve birders went to Oyster Bay and the Oyster River Estuary where we saw the following 29 species:
Oyster Bay
26 species:
Eurasian Wigeon
American Wigeon
Mallard
Northern Pintail
Green-winged Teal
Surf Scoter
White-winged Scoter
Black Scoter
Long-tailed Duck
Bufflehead
Common Goldeneye
Pacific Loon
Common Loon
Horned Grebe
Red-necked Grebe
Pelagic Cormorant
Black-bellied Plover
Black Turnstone
Dunlin
Common Murre
Mew Gull
Thayer’s Gull
Glaucous-winged Gull
Belted Kingfisher
Merlin
Northwestern Crow
Oyster River Estuary
3 additional species:
Harlequin Duck
Greater Scaup
Common Merganser
