Despite being sidetracked and distracted by the best Clapper Rails ever Shane and I did manage to focus our binoculars, scopes, and camera lenses...

When Shane Blodgett and I made plans to bird for most of a recent day our main objectives were to find migrating Nelson’s Sparrows,...

Long have I heard the members of the New York City Butterfly Club extol the virtues of Floyd Bennett Field in terms of the...

You poor suffering souls who come back repeatedly to read the dreck that I write about my assorted birding adventures will recall that last...

Despite being the borough that is home to Williamsburg, where irony goes to die, Park Slope, which obnoxious doesn’t even begin to describe, and,...

Over two years ago, when I was doing a New York State Big Year, one of the birds that I tried to see but...

I spent Saturday morning and into the early afternoon with my becoming-a-birder friend, Kerry, with whom I’ve birded before, birding in Queens and a...

The Queens County Bird Club field trip this past Sunday to Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn was relatively well-attended, with eleven people present, and...