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The southwestern most part of Queens, at the end of the Rockaway Peninsula, is Breezy Point. The small community out there is lucky to have a large Common Tern colony that also hosts breeding Black Skimmers and Least Terns, to say nothing of the Piping Plovers and American Oystercatchers that breed out on the barrier [...]

Snowy Owls are iconic birds. You rarely find a person – birder or non – who doesn’t want to take a good long look at a bright white owl. And, of course, you rarely meet a photographer who doesn’t want to take a good close picture of a bright white owl. On Saturday, as has [...]

Christmas Eve Eve dawned cold and relatively clear.  It also dawned windy, with steady winds from the northwest around twenty miles per hour and gusts up to forty-five!  Of course, as is only to be expected when Daisy has the day off from work and has agreed to take responsibility for our son and I [...]

After spending all day birding exhaustion was setting in as we, that is, Doug, Heydi, and I, made our way to the coast in the hopes of getting some good coastal species somewhere out in the southwesternmost portion of Queens, the barrier beach peninsula, Breezy Point.  Doug had scouted the area the day before and [...]

Sunday was a rare day that I had a car (borrowed from Daisy’s sister), some free time, and nice weather for which Sunday was a reasonable description of the meteorological conditions, though, really, Sunnyday would have been a bit more accurate.  Of course, when real-world conditions line up like that I am virtually compelled by [...]

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 [...]