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After walking what felt like halfway across Queens I arrived at Flushing Meadows Park and found it totally packed with people. There were soccer players, remote-control car racers, barbecuers, and a whole host of other folks enjoying the great outdoors. What there was not a lot of was birds. It was frustrating, to say the [...]

It was shortly after the Red-necked Phalarope that I had to make a pretty major decision. We, being Mike, Carrie, and me, had received word of an amazing array of wood-warblers in Forest Park, and were practically salivating at the idea of our first-ever Kentucky Warbler. Forest Park is only a quick drive north of [...]

A couple of weeks ago I decided to do a Big Day limited to the borough of Queens and traveling only on foot and by mass transit. Yesterday, Saturday the tenth of May, was the day that I chose to do it, in the hopes that migration would be in full swing without the earlier [...]

On Saturday, September 1, 2007, Will and I participated in the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club’s first Fall Century Run. Was the best part of the day watching a flushed American Bittern fly over a marsh? Or was it when a flock of noisy Blue Jays went in a screaming chase after a Great Horned Owl? Or [...]

In the last post our tenacious Century Run team had just left Cohoes for Vischer Ferry in Saratoga County, our fourth county of the day, and the rain had started coming down hard. The drive along Cohoes-Crescent Road and then River Road was without any new birds and our mood was falling faster than the [...]

When we left off our exhausted team, having birded for over 13 straight hours already, was headed north from Coxsackie with a little over 100 species for the day. A quick stop at the Dunn Memorial Bridge in our third county of the day, Rennselaer County, to pick up the nesting Peregrine Falcons was successful [...]

the only picture you get today…sometimes just looking at the birds is better than trying to photograph them Will Raup and I decided we would spend all of Cinco de Mayo scouting for the Hudson Mohawk Bird Club’s Century Run that will be on May 19th. We birded ourselves to exhaustion and was it ever [...]