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I’ve already shared some pictures from this past Saturday’s trip out along the south shore of Suffolk County looking for shorebirds.  The guy I traveled and birded with, Andrew, has already posted his account of the day on Birding Dude.  So why am I writing another post about the time we spent searching for birds?  [...]

Say the title of this blog post five times fast and I guarantee a life bird within two weeks!  Rather than do a full trip report from a twenty-shorebird-day with Birding Dude I’m just going to put up a few of my favorite pictures from the day and wait to do the full post until [...]

I have been fortunate over the last week in that my folks let me borrow their car, which means I’ve had transportation for which I get to devise schedules and routes for the first time in the over-a-year I’ve lived in New York City.  What does this have to do with anything?  Well, by virtue [...]

This past Sunday I mounted a full expedition out to Suffolk County on Long Island with Andrew Baksh, otherwise known as Birding Dude.  We saw a bunch of great birds (a full post on the day is in the hopper) but an Arctic Tern (Sterna paradisaea) was easily the best bird of the day, at [...]

When I posted a short blurb a couple of days ago about my plans to scour the south shore of Long Island in the wake of Tropical Storm Hanna I had anticipated maybe finding a good tern or perhaps a shearwater near the shore.  But after an hour or so of searching Jones Beach frustration [...]

Corey and I, accompanied by my good buddy Frank, had a blast on Long Island this weekend moving from one enticing ecosystem to another in search of rare birds. Corey already described the details of our avian-inspired adventures in delightful detail. Since I have a few images of our excursion I’d like to share, let [...]

Suffolk County, Long Island, the easternmost county in New York State, still has some pretty darn good habitat for the birds. Whether one is looking on a mudflat, listening in the pine barrens, or searching in a salt marsh there are birds to be seen. Which, of course, means that 10,000 Birds couldn’t [...]

Pink-footed Goose. Barnacle Goose. Western Kingbird. After seeing those three birds in the first thirty seconds of actually birding on Sunday it would be difficult to do any better for the rest of the day but Jory and I were sure as heck going to try. First, we headed out to [...]

Yesterday was the day I would break 300 birds for the year in New York State. A plethora of rare-for-New York birds had been spotted way out east on Long Island, birds I had been too lazy to chase the previous weekend. This past weekend, however, fueled by fine Thanksgiving food, I knew [...]

On Saturday I managed to drag Daisy from bed at 6 am and out the door by 6:30 on our way to some extreme Suffolk County birding. The plan was simple: drive out the Long Island Expressway to exit 70, head to a DEC bike trail where Yellow-breasted Chat and Northern Bobwhite were recently [...]