Montauk Birding

On Saturday, October 15th, we went bird watching in Montauk with the SoFo Natural History Museum birding group. The trip started out by the Montauk lighthouse. We started out on an overlook where we saw a couple of Eider Ducks, Crested Cormorants, Laughing Gulls, House Finches, Jaegers, common terns, Forester Terns, and two Bonaparte Gulls, Peregrine Falcon and a lot of Canada Geese. After standing there for a while, we moved on to the path towards the lighthouse and down to the cliffs. On the way to the cliffs, we saw a Merlin Falcon chasing a Warbler (possibly the most epic chase I have ever seen), a little while after that we saw a Myrtle Warbler. As we walked on, however, we saw a Merlin fly overhead with a puffed out chest, which was most likely a small bird that it had caught moments before. We headed back to the car to go to the ranch and on the way saw a Mockingbird and many other birds. When we arrived at the ranch, we saw a large flock of Canada Geese. In this large group we saw a Greater White Fronted Goose! This was a very nice find that was spotted very quickly by our leaders, Hugh McGuinness and Bob Wilson.