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Philadelphia Vireo and More at the Forest Park Waterhole

By • May 29, 2009 • 2 comments

So this past Sunday was really a banner day for me birding and photographing birds in Queens.  In addition to the Scarlet Tanager and Wilson’s Snipe I also managed to get to the waterhole to see a Philadelphia Vireo found by Seth Ausubel, a stellar Queens birder, before I arrived.  The bird had made two [...]

Philadelphia Close to Home

By • September 24, 2007 • 3 comments

So far this year in New York I have seen Red-eyed Vireos, White-eyed Vireos, Warbling Vireos, Yellow-throated Vireos and Blue-headed Vireos. The Philadelphia Vireo, which nests much further north and only in scattered locations in the Adirondacks, has eluded me. Eluded me, that is, until Sunday. On Sunday morning at 6:30 AM a fellow Albany-area [...]