One advantage of being unemployed is that you have more free time.  This is key when an email goes out to the listservs about...

This fall has been good to me in terms of getting good looks at migrant wood-warblers.  Whether I was watching birds at Alley Pond...

A Nashville Warbler Vermivora ruficapilla (below) and a Tennessee Warbler Vermivora peregrina (above) at the Fort Tilden Community Garden.

Blackpoll Warblers are one of the species for which the term “confusing fall warbler” was made.  Their namesake black cap is entirely lacking by...

The coast of Queens is a great place to bird, especially in the fall on a day with north winds after a night with...

Those who read this blog regularly might recall how this past December I was fortunate enough to have a close encounter with an overly...

On a recent birding stroll in Queens I came across this Common Yellowthroat, one of 5,467,298 that I saw that day.  They were everywhere,...

On Tuesday morning, after being a New York-based birder for five years and several months, I finally saw a Yellow-breasted Chat in New York...