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No, by the title I don’t mean to imply that 6,667 birds were out birding at Jamaica Bay (Why would birds be out birding?  They would be out peopling if they were doing anything). The 2/3 of 10,000 Birds that headed out to the marvelous refuge were Mike and myself, Mike so he could see [...]

I got an early start yesterday morning in the hopes of finding migrant warblers in Forest Park. The rain and strong south winds we had the night previous had given way to strong northwest winds yesterday morning and sunrise was obscured by lots of clouds. In other words, it was a pretty gray start to [...]

On Saturday, a mere two weeks after having moved into my new digs in Queens, I decided it was time for a major birding expedition. After a week of examining subway lines and bus schedules and checking weather reports I figured that a ride on the E or F subway lines to Woodside to catch [...]

When discussing my birding plans for Sunday with some New Yorkers I was met with blank stares, queries about my sanity, and outright derision. Apparently, New Yorkers, at least non-birding New Yorkers, do not wake up very early on Sunday morning in Queens in order to take the F train all the way into Manhattan [...]

This morning I woke up at the crack of dawn and was in Forest Park, binoculars and camera at the ready, when the first fingers of light hit the forest floor.  The birds weren’t quite awake yet.  I waited patiently and ended up seeing the same darn birds that I saw this past Sunday.  Not [...]

After a grueling ordeal yesterday, which involved loading the contents of my third floor, two-bedroom apartment in Albany into a ginormous U-haul truck, driving said truck to Daisy’s studio apartment in Woodside, Queens, and once again loading up the truck and then driving to Kew Gardens, Queens, and unloading the truck and getting everything up [...]

Monday morning, after driving Daisy to the Amtrak station to catch the train back to the city I decided to take a walk around my neighborhood looking for birds.  Surprisingly, this is something I had never done before.  I’ve walked around my neighborhood and I’ve looked for birds but somehow had never combined the two.  [...]

For the birds I saw in Meadows Park in Temecula, California, to count for my Anti-Global Warming Big Year I need to offset the carbon dioxide emitted by my traveling there. Fortunately, there exists on the web a wide array of carbon calculators to figure out exactly how much carbon was produced getting me to [...]

Just down the street from Daisy’s sister’s and brother-in-law’s house in Temecula, CA, is a little tiny place called Meadows Park. It consists of a large grassy area, a couple jungle gyms for the kids, some picnic tables, and a small parking lot. At least, that is all the park is if you look here.  [...]

After exhausting myself and putting WAY too many miles on my car during my New York State 2007 Big Year I need to scale back for 2008. Inspired by guilt, Al Gore, Bigby, and my upcoming move to The Big Apple (sometime in February) I will be doing an Anti-Global Warming Big Year for 2008. [...]