As I did about a week and a half ago (and described here) I recently took another stroll across a large chunk of Queens, during which I digiscoped the Double-crested Cormorant pictures I already shared. Rather than bore you, dear 10,000 Birds reader, with a detailed account of the walk I figured I would just share some of my favorite pictures I got during my walk. Below are the images. I hope you like them…
European Starling Sturnus vulgaris
Willow Lake at dawn
American Coot Fulica americana
Savannah Sparrow Passerculus sandwichensis
Northern Mockingbird Mimus polyglottus
Red-winged Blackbird at Meadow Lake
Double-crested Cormorants Phalacrocorax auritus
Walking across Queens provides some of the best urban birding anywhere!
Corey is a New Yorker who lived most of his life in upstate New York but has lived in Queens since 2008. He's only been birding since 2005 but has garnered a respectable life list by birding whenever he wasn't working as a union representative or spending time with his family. He lives in Forest Hills with Daisy and Desmond Shearwater. His bird photographs have appeared on the Today Show, in Birding, Living Bird Magazine, Bird Watcher's Digest, and many other fine publications. He is also the author of the American Birding Association Field Guide to the Birds of New York.
Hmmmm.
No offence, Corey, and those are indeed mighty fine pics, but the statement “Walking across Queens provides some of the best urban birding anywhere!” doesn’t really sound all that convincing with European Starlings and Red-winged Blackbirds on the pics.
[Feel free to show this comment to Daisy, state your loss of face and convince her to let you out of the house very frequently in May. You’re welcome, mate. ;-)]
The Barn Swallows will start nesting soon.
Great pictures! What camera are you using?
Love the Cormorant pic – looks like the one is being shooed away… “Run along, now”!!