This past Saturday morning I was out at Jones Beach birding all morning with my good friends Seth and Mary, who had dragged me,...

Jones Beach State Park in Nassau County, New York, is a great place to bird at all seasons. In winter, especially with the kind...

While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik), I had a couple of...

Swarovski Optik has proven their generosity to bird bloggers once again by thoughtfully allowing me the use of one of their marvelous new modular spotting scopes,...

Early Sunday morning I was out and about at Jones Beach State Park hoping to track down the hordes of crossbills that I had...

Red Crossbills are the more difficult of the two North American crossbills to find. At least, that is what anecdotal evidence tells me and...

You want to find a Cave Swallow in New York, huh? Fortunately for you, it’s easy. Just follow the steps below and you will...

Nassau County, New York, March 2009 After having fully explored the trail around the West Pond at Jamaica Bay, we four bird bloggers agreed...