Just for the heck of it I thought I would share some recent shots of some relatively common birds from my pre-work stops at Van Saun Park, mostly because if I don’t use them in a post like this I don’t know what I would use them for. Enjoy!
House Finch Haemorhous mexicanus (click for a bigger version)
Red-breasted Nuthatch Sitta canadensis
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottos
Northern Flicker Colaptes auratus
Chipping Sparrow Spizella passerina
Northern Cardinal Cardinalis cardinalis
Rose-breasted Grosbeak Pheucticus ludovicianus
I love getting some birding in before work!
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Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Love the common birds. That Flicker shot is stunning!
Everyone should bird before and after work! 🙂
Or while at work… 😉
@Liza Lee Miller: Thanks.
@Clare and Grant: Yes!
@Jochen: A thousand times yes!