{"id":2124,"date":"2013-12-27T18:25:36","date_gmt":"2013-12-27T23:25:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2124"},"modified":"2013-12-27T18:25:36","modified_gmt":"2013-12-27T23:25:36","slug":"long-island-snowies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/?p=2124","title":{"rendered":"Long Island SNOWIES"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of two Snowy Owls seen from Dune Road, Suffolk County NY on 12\/26\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Tricia and I were back on Long Island this week to spend Christmas with our families. The day after Christmas, I went birding out east with with Tricia’s Brother-in-law Bill. We basically started out at Cupsogue County Park (a spot I’ve been wanting to get to, having seen many reports of good birds there), and then we headed east on Dune Road. The highlight of the day was locating two (!!!) SNOWY OWLS<\/strong>. Both owls could be seen easily from the car on the beach side of Dune Road and the light was nice which made for some nice photos. Aside from the Snowies, we did pretty well, identifying 28 species and seeing a few more than that; I did not have my scope with me which meant leaving some of the more distant birds unidentified. The birding on Long Island is pretty amazing, the birding hotspots seem endless. Thanks once again to Bill for showing me around; it was a super day of birding.<\/p>\n

Here is my species list for the outing:<\/p>\n

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I have this as a Red-throated Loon, Eastern Long Island 12\/26\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Canada Goose
\nMute Swan
\nAmerican Black Duck
\nBlack Scoter
\nLong-tailed Duck
\nBufflehead
\nCommon Merganser
\nRed-breasted Merganser
\nRed-throated Loon
\nCommon Loon
\nHorned Grebe
\nNorthern Gannet
\nDouble-crested Cormorant
\nGreat Blue Heron
\nNorthern Harrier
\nBlack-bellied Plover
\nRuddy Turnstone
\nSanderling
\nDunlin
\nRing-billed Gull
\nHerring Gull
\nGreat Black-backed Gull
\nMourning Dove \u00a09
\nSnowy Owl
\nAmerican Crow
\nAmerican Robin
\nEuropean Starling
\nSnow Bunting<\/p>\n

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Always a favorite, we had a large flock of Snow Buntings on Dune Road. There were close to 100 birds in the flock, by far the most I’ve ever seen.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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This was the first Snowy Owl of the day, located on Dune Road, just east of Tiana Beach, 12\/26\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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I was happy to see some shorebirds! It’s been a while. We did alright at Cupsogue County Park for shorebirds getting these Sanderlings…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u2026a<\/a>
\u2026a single Ruddy Turnstone…<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
\"\u2026and<\/a>
\u2026and several Black-bellied Plovers. All at Cupsogue County Park, 12\/26\/13.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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Tricia and I were back on Long Island this week to spend Christmas with our families. The day after Christmas, I went birding out east with with Tricia’s Brother-in-law Bill. We basically started out at Cupsogue County Park (a spot I’ve been wanting to get to, having seen many reports of good birds there), and … Continue reading “Long Island SNOWIES”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[19,15,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photos","category-rarities","category-walkingwaterbirds"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p5i3kT-yg","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2134,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2124\/revisions\/2134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/orangebirding.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}