July in New York City is generally an unpleasant experience. The heat and humidity of summer combine with the concrete and concentrations of people...

  Few birds are as spectacular as a Northern Gannet in a plunge dive. The way they briefly flare up and turn over, pulling...

Breezy Point, the westernmost tip of the barrier islands that protect Long Island’s south shore, is also the southwestern most portion of Queens and...

I spent the early hours of Sunday morning taking the long trudge out to the tip of Breezy Point, the southwesternmost part of Queens....

On Saturday morning I decided to look for early migrants and lingering winter birds out at the southeasternmost part of Queens, the tip of...

Seth Ausubel, Rich Kelly, and I were getting out of Seth’s car at Breezy Point, Queens, on Sunday, when I declared that the only...

The southwestern most part of Queens, at the end of the Rockaway Peninsula, is Breezy Point. The small community out there is lucky to...

Snowy Owls are iconic birds. You rarely find a person – birder or non – who doesn’t want to take a good long look...