Two individuals. Reported to DEC, as this is not one of the locations on their published maps. Seems to be a decent population, we found both within ~30 minutes in the same area.
tail characters and location make me think they are this instead of peeper
Spotted by a colleague next to a pond
This is a confirmed Allen’s hummingbird that spent the winter at a feeder station in Riverhead. These photos are not diagnostic as they do not show shape/color of individual rectrices, but photos by others do and I suspect they will be surfacing in the coming weeks. The presence of this bird was not publicized so as to protect the sensitive residential location from being swarmed by birders.
on My trail
Flipped under a rock at the edge of a stream. Found in the immediate vicinity of several other Northern Duskies, with which it appeared largely consistent in size, structure, and color. I suspect that the tapered appearance of the tail tip is an artifact of the angle, photo quality, and wet mud