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It has been six days now since about 400 Canada Geese that had been living on the lake at Prospect Park, Brooklyn, were rounded up, packed two or three to a crate, trucked away, and gassed to death by the United States Department of Agriculture – all without public notice.  This continues the trend in [...]

When Daisy asked me if it was alright for her to pass my email on to a law school classmate so the classmate could pass my email on to a birder she had met through a friend, well, I was hesitant, because who knows what kind of person this was, but, in the end, I [...]

Saturday was a day for birding.  I’ve already shared my experience with the cooperative Yellow-bellied Sapsucker, but that was far from the only bird that crossed my path in Prospect Park that day.  When I first got off the F train just outside of the southwestern corner of the park I headed straight across the [...]

This post is rather belated and the birding that will be described actually occurred last weekend.  I’m not sure how I managed to not write about this particular birding outing yet as it had all the hallmarks of a successful trip.  Anyway, last Sunday morning was sunny and not cold or windy so it was [...]

Corey started our tale of birding adventure and now it falls to me to complete it. We met at Union Square Park to scan the absurdly accommodating, utterly improbable Scott’s Oriole wintering therein. The deflating sensation of such an effortless twitch (perhaps you know the feeling) was offset by the pleasure of meeting Carrie of [...]