Macro Monday - Great Spangled Fritillary...

Today's Photo - Common Loon...

Van Courtlandt Bird Walk Report 6-25-2011...

Baby Barn Swallows Our group met up this morning at our usual spot, the nature center near the parade grounds. We did our usual scan of the...

Hooded Crow at Crookes Point Great Kills Staten Island NY...

If you were unable to read this post around 8:19 p.m., please accept my apologies as I pulled it to make an update(see highlighted in yellow...

Wordless Wednesday...

Today's Photo - Crab Spider and its meal...

Today's photo is of a Crab Spider sucking the life out of a Monarch Caterpillar . Note: the plant is a Common Milkweed (Asclepias syria...

Today's Photo - Copperhead Snake...

Today's Photo - Snowy Egret...

Queens Semipalmated Sandpiper was banded in French Guiana...

On May 26th and 27th, while doing shorebird monitoring in the Jamaica Bay Queens NY area, I observed and photographed a banded Semipalmated...

Wordless Wednesday...

Any day with a Kentucky Warbler is a good day...

Following my walk on Saturday at Van Courtlandt Park in the Bronx NY, I decided that I would head out to Rockefeller State Park in Westche...

Van Courtlandt Bird Walk Report 6-11-2011...

Despite the overcast and sometimes light drizzle conditions, we had our Saturday morning walk at Van Courtlandt Park Bronx NY . With migrat...

Today's Photo - American Avocet...

Today's Photo - Black Skimmer...

Backyard Birding News...

It is almost a month since I reported on bird activities in the backyard, with my last post on May 9th.  With migration just about over (I s...

Wordless Wednesday...

Today's Photo - Yellow-crowned Night Heron...

Digiscoped photo of an Adult Yellow-crowned Night Heron

Right Place, Right Time - My state White-winged Dove at Jones Beach...

Shai, Pat and Doug I must have had a four-leaf clover in my pocket or lady luck decided to blow a little luck my way.  How else could one ex...

Wordless Wednesday...