10,000 Birds
MAY 16, 2017
In 2016, the DOT started rebuilding a bridge on the highway next to Four Sparrow Marsh, and maybe because of the noise, maybe because of the removal of some buffer plants, the sparrows did not breed that year. There was still hope that the sparrows might return. Not anymore. The Department of Environmental Conservation has been alerted.
10,000 Birds
OCTOBER 2, 2016
He couldn’t decide between a Bobolink on the barrier beaches of Queens and the Eurasian Wigeon on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay. Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a close contest. He flipped a coin and the wigeon won! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
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10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 18, 2016
Though the birds were a bit fewer and far between than they would have liked they did see some good stuff, including a one-eyed Baird’s Sandpiper on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay that took the honors as Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2017
I saw my first migratory Eastern Phoebe of 2017 this morning, 12 March, at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, thus kicking off spring for myself over a week early. 2016 – 18 March. It’s also the earliest I’ve had over the last ten years. Below are my first dates for the last ten years if you are really interested in such things….
10,000 Birds
APRIL 17, 2016
Instead, like every spring, Corey was charmed by the Tree Swallows defending their nest boxes at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge when he visited there Sunday morning. But somehow Little Blue Herons , Brown Thrasher , and Forster’s Terns just didn’t do it. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?
10,000 Birds
APRIL 10, 2016
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a cooperative Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that contentedly foraged while Corey digiscoped. Fortunately, Conesus Lake holds all manner of superb waterfowl, including more Common Loons in breeding plumage than I’ve ever seen at one time. That’s a win in my book.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 23, 2020
White Ibis – A pair of young was spotted in Queens a couple of years ago and it is just a matter of time before another shows up at Jamaica Bay. 313 – Greater White-fronted Goose , 21 February 2016: I don’t know how I didn’t see this one coming. Maybe this fall I will spot one or, failing that, next spring!
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