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This past Wednesday, 11 November, I was in my office in midtown Manhattan when I was dismayed to see an email on the state listserv from Seth Ausabel saying that he had found a Cackling Goose Branta hutchinsii in Flushing Meadows Park, Queens.  Why was I dismayed that a good birder, who 10,000 Birds readers [...]

After sleeping in for the first time in forever (Daisy even got up and fed the cats!) I realized that having birded Jamaica Bay yesterday (and getting my first Blue-gray Gnatcatcher, Glossy Ibis, and Wood Duck of the year) I didn’t really have a plan for the couple of hours worth of birding I could [...]

Sometimes I feel like I lived a charmed life.  On Saturday, which is not my actual birthday but is when Daisy and I both had time to celebrate my birthday, Daisy told me that we had to go to Manhattan to get my birthday present.  Not only would she not tell me what the present [...]

On the very last day of 2008 I braved the cold, wind, and icy precipitation to get one last bird for my Anti-Global Warming Big Year, and the last bird was a doozy.  The Pink-footed Goose is a vagrant in North America, and should be somewhere in Europe right now.  The one that was first [...]

On this blustery day I spent my morning walking across Queens.  Well, not all the way across Queens, but across a goodly portion of it, and it was definitely worth the slightly sore back, cold body, and soaking feet.  I was out of the house at about twenty after seven and caught the Q46 bus [...]

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, [...]