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Everyone knows what a jinx bird is.  It is a bird that dodges you like sanity does Michele Bachmann.  No matter how hard you try to find a jinx bird it eludes you.  They are frustrating, annoying, anger-inducing, and, when you finally find one, amazingly rewarding!  Jinx birds are one of the aspects of birding [...]

When Shane Blodgett and I made plans to bird for most of a recent day our main objectives were to find migrating Nelson’s Sparrows, good lingering shorebirds, and any scarce-for-New York birds that might have been fattening up at coastal sites in Brooklyn or Queens before continuing on their migration.  Shane was kind enough to [...]

So, if you aren’t already sick of the birds of the Marine Nature Study Area after over imbibing on Black Skimmers and Great Egrets, there is one more bird that Daisy and Kerry and I spotted there that I would like to share with you: a Clapper Rail!  After we had been at the preserve [...]