Forest Park, Jamaica Wildlife Refuge and Big Egg Marsh...

Sticking to my local birding sites; today, I started the day by birding Forest Park. My first visit was at Stracker Pond around 7:50 am, wh...

Audubon Birdathon - still time to pledge your support...

A huge thank you to Ron and Jean, Julia, Doris, Seena, William, Jennifer, Denis and Paul for being the early donors to my Audubon fund rai...

Birding Jamaica Bay; rescuing a Horseshoe Crab and a Silky Moth...

On Sunday, I had planned on helping my friend Don Riepe, who was leading a walk with the Friends of the East Brunswick Environmental Commiss...

Birding Doodletown NY...

Today, I drove up to Doodletown to do some birding and met up with the Queens County Bird Club . I got to the location around 7:15 AM, whic...

Shorebird Monitoring at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge...

A morning walk at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge in Queens NY to do some shorebird monitoring and photography, resulted in very exciting news.....

Shorebird monitoring at Big Egg Marsh...

After the Oceanside visit, I decided to make a late afternoon run over to Big Egg Marsh in Queens NY, to do some Shorebird monitoring. I ha...

A morning visit to Oceanside...

After resting from the Delmarva trip, I had the itch to get out and I made a long overdue trip to the Marine Nature Area in Oceanside NY. I...

Birding Delmarva...

On Friday May 15th, 8 of us boarded a van and headed out to bird in the Delmarva Peninsula . This area is made up Delaware, portions of Ma...

Conservation work at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Queens NY...

On Tuesday, I arranged my schedule to join my friends Doris and Don in doing some planting at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. Doris and I ...

Birding in Central Park...

Following yesterday’s Birding Big Day event with the Urban Park Rangers, I went to Central park to bird with Joe Giunta who had a Spring Mig...

Brooklyn, Queens Birding Big Day event with the Urban Park Rangers...

Yesterday, I went out with the Urban Park Rangers on a Brooklyn, Queens Birding Big Day event. I got to the meeting place, the Woolman Rink...

Spring Migrants fallout at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge...

My friend Don Riepe and I had discussed last night about the possible fall out of spring migrants that might occur after the recent steady b...

Thank you to my NYC Audubon Birdathon donors...

A huge thank you to Julia, Doris and Seena for being the early donors to my Audubon fund raising. Where are all the bird lovers? Common, I...

Wilson's Snipe and others at Big Egg Marsh Queens NY...

After seeing the new spring arrivals in the backyard (see my "Backyard Birding News" post earlier today), I decided to visit one o...

Backyard Birding News...

I have been waiting patiently for one of those spectacular spring backyard birding days and this morning...just a few minutes ago, I had one...

Spring migration at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge...

Rain over the past few days, has put a damper on my birding activities. A break from the rain today allowed me to arrange my schedule to bi...

Backyard Birding News…

With rain in the forecast, I decided that I would spend time getting caught up with my yard work. Of course, I had to squeeze in some type ...

Willet and others at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Queens NY…

I had a Jamaica Bay Task Force meeting today at the Wildlife Refuge visitor’s center. Since the meeting was scheduled to begin at 6:30 pm, ...