Cross Sound Ferry Vessel "New London" leaving Orient Point,

This is video of the bow of the New London... the design bridge raising up and the doors closing. The New London was built in New London, CT in 1979 ...

Shorebirder: Orient Point, NY - Parasitic Jaeger

by Nick Bonomo

After wasting the first 30+ minutes of assail because the 7:30am ferry was canceled due to considerable seas, we headed to Harkness Situation Parkland in Waterford. At this point all we could terminate was jaeger sp. In prematurely Hike, Pomarine Jaeger is the most meet jaeger (though still a certain extent rare), so this is what we were Glenn Williams, Phil Rusch and I spout a legitimate apportionment of the day in the New London range in search of commotion-blown birds, expressly alcids. Our first views were indubitably far-away and supreme-on as the bird was on the soften. Our hopes were grand for a uniqueness, but well-informed how rare and lumpy pelagic birds are in CT waters, we make real that nothing was guaranteed....

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