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Now that landbird migration is largely done here in the northeastern United States we birders have to have something on which to focus our attention. Shorebirds and seabirds will serve nicely for a couple of weeks until we hit the summer birding doldrums when birders consider things like butterflies and dragonflies, as heretical as that [...]

On the rare occasion that I have a car in my possession I want to take advantage of my new-found mobility every single moment.  For twenty-four hours this weekend, from Friday night to Saturday night, we had a rental car in order to go to Jones Beach Saturday afternoon, and no one minded me getting [...]

When one does a birding big day a host of difficulties can arise that destroy one’s chances at getting a great number of species.  Traffic, weather, a lack of migrant movement, and just plain bad luck can all conspire to limit the number of species one spots.  But some days the opposite happens.  A decent [...]

Sunday was my day for birding this weekend and I had an ambitious plan to wake up very early, get into Forest Park, and spend hours searching each and every grove of pines for roosting owls before Danny got out of church and headed to the coast with me in search of scoters.  I failed [...]

Though Queens, especially Jamaica Bay, is known for the fabulous numbers and variety of shorebirds that come through in fall migration there are often quite a few shorebirds to be seen in the spring as well.  Sure, Siberian vagrants are pretty unlikely in spring but the lack of rarity is made up for by the [...]

This past weekend was so full of birding excursions and great birds that I am having a very difficult time deciding what post to write first.  I know, I know, it’s a horribly difficult life to live, but somehow I manage to muddle through.  Anyway, after birding Alley Pond Park on Sunday morning and seeing [...]

Rather than reliving the rather boring experience of not finding an Orange-crowned Warbler at Alley Pond Park I figured I would (finally) wrap up blogging about my birding this past Saturday. Long story short: Alley Pond Park had some good birds like an Ovenbird and a juvenile Mourning Warbler but no Orange-crowned Warbler appeared in [...]

The weekend began for me with a Friday night for the ages, if I could only remember it. Daisy, her two sisters, her brother-in-law and I went to a karaoke bar and I made the mistake of trying to keep up in terms of drinking soju, a Korean liquor. I learned that large quantities of [...]