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| Radar image evening of Oct 31, 2012 |
As the remnants of Hurricane Sandy continue to slowly rotate
through New York and Pennsylvania the reports of storm related birds continues
to come in from areas near and far from the storm track. Although the morning has been relatively
quiet as the day moved on odd birds continued to be seen. As the days go on the chances of finding
something unusual become less and less likely as the birds displaced by the
storm find their way back to their usual locations or succumb. I tried Winsor Dam this morning and then over
to Hank’s Meadow and Goodnough Dike briefly.
Winsor Dam only had five Common Mergansers and a few Mallards. All the various species present at sunset
last evening (scoters, bufflehead, long tailed ducks) appeared to have left
overnight. There were no birds at Goodnough
and Hank’s Meadow produced a single Ring necked Duck and Common Merganser plus
a couple Horned Grebe. There may have
been other birds around but I did not have too much time to check in any great
detail. Only other bird of note this
morning was a flyover Evening Grosbeak.
Additional information on the sightings from the storm so
far can be found on the ABA blog at the following two links:
October 30th post: http://blog.aba.org/2012/10/abarare-hurricane-sandy-report-1-northern-lapwing-rosss-gull-and-more.html
October 31st post: http://blog.aba.org/2012/10/abarare-hurricane-sandy-report-2.html
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| Black Scoter flock, Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Oct 31, 2012 |
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| Dusk at Winsor Dam, Oct 31, 2012 |
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| Black Scoter (left) and White winged Scoters (distant right),Winsor Dam, Quabbin Park, Oct 31, 2012 |
An evening stop at Winsor Dam was a bit more productive than
my early morning stop with 44 Black Scoter, 3 White winged Scoter, a Common Loon and 3 Common
Mergansers plus a heard only White winged Crossbill. Still no extremely unusual sightings from
here today
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