Field Trip to West End Jones Beach Recap
Twenty members and friends joined our club outing on Feb 12. The date was rescheduled from the near ZERO temperatures the weekend before and we were rewarding with temperatures around 50 degrees!
Among the avian highlights were large numbers of Razorbills. These northern hemisphere “penguins” normally are scarce here and viewing them usually means braving the icy winds at Montauk. But on this day we had great looks at them drifting along on the glassy smooth waters of the inlet. Over at Point Lookout, there were two Purple Sandpipers sleeping on the rocks, and a couple of us had very distant looks at a pair of Harlequin Ducks. A handful of us wrapped up the day at the TR Sanctuary, where a pair of Horned Larks were singing in preparation for their early nesting season.
Overall, we found 43 species of birds, and we also saw many Harbor Seals feeding close in to the jetty.
With the birdsong and balmy temperatures, we could almost convince ourselves that spring was right around the corner.
Shakespeare Event was a Success in Brookside Park!
Islip Arts Council, in collaboration with Great South Bay Audubon Society, hosted Shakespeare in the Park on August 27.
Karen Unmasked: Exploring Identities
Karen Andres is fairly new to to GSBAS. She is one of those hidden members who sends in her dues but hasn’t invested time into the organization.
New Motus Station Will Track Migratory Birds Flying Over the Long Island’s North Shore
OYSTER BAY, NY (June 2023)— The new Motus station installed at the Theodore Roosevelt Sanctuary and Audubon Center in Oyster Bay, NY will help track migratory birds by picking up radio signals from any bird with a radio tag that flies within several miles of the site.
