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***East End Birds, 20 April 2007
***Covering the towns of Southampton, East Hampton, Shelter Island, Southold & Riverhead on the eastern end of Long Island, New York.
***Volume 9, Number 20
Yesterday afternoon Orhan Birol found a female SUMMER TANAGER at the western end of Squires Ave in East Quogue. I have just received word that the bird is still present this morning. To reach this spot head west on Montauk Highway from Hampton Bays. Turn south on Jones Rd, and then left onto Squires. Follow this to where it ends at the water, and look in the bushes on the right hand side.
In Montauk today, Vicki Bustamante found a LINCOLN’S SPARROW at Third House (Teddy Roosevelt County Park) in Montauk. When turning into the park from Montauk Highway look for a small pond on the left. The bird was on the back (west) side of the pond feeding on the grass.
***East End Birds, 17 April 2007
***Covering the towns of Southampton, East Hampton, Shelter Island, Southold & Riverhead on the eastern end of Long Island, New York.
***Volume 9, Number 19
In the wake of the noreaster that passed through our area from Saturday night to Monday evening, a local wildlife rehabilitator received several exhausted birds, the most surprising of which was a SOOTY TERN, which was picked up in Westhampton on Apr 16. Also found in exhausted condition were a SORA in Hampton Bays on April 14 and a SCARLET TANAGER in Southampton on Apr 16. From Shelter Island also comes word of an early LEAST TERN, also in exhausted condition, on Apr 16. In addition BARN SWALLOWS appeared in the area in large numbers on Apr 16, when I had 45 on the pond behind my house in Sag Harbor.
I would like to encourage all East End observers to check out the barrier beach and the bays and harbors along the south shore for stray birds. Places like Georgica, Sagaponack, Mecox and Shinnecock all might be productive. Sooty Tern has been reported from at least three other states during this storm, and there may be a bird or two lingering on our shores. Along the barrier beach southern migrants such as Summer Tanager or Blue Grosbeak, both of which were reported yesterday from Fire Island, might be encountered. (Indigo Bunting has also been turning up further up-island.) Observers should attempt to document all rarities with photographs or by calling other birders to see the bird.