10,000 Birds

MARCH 7, 2021

But, of course, it was Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that paid off the most when Corey carefully scanned the margins of the West Pond and turned up a surprise American Bittern. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Jamaica Birds Wildlife Experience 169

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AUGUST 24, 2020

But the birds he most appreciated were the juvenile Least Sandpiper feeding at his feet on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. As an example of how close they were, the shot above is uncropped. How about you?

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2020 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 170

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MAY 16, 2021

Of the 113 species they spotted it was hard to pick a single Best Bird of the Weekend, but the Common Nighthawk perched in the north garden at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge rose to the top of the heap. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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Soreing Jamaica Birds Collecting 153

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 6, 2020

Corey got his Best Bird of the Weekend early this weekend as while he and his family were making their way home from a week-long vacation in Cape Cod on Friday a Black-throated Gray Warbler was found in Queens at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2020 Jamaica Birds Family 155

10,000 Birds

JUNE 14, 2020

Corey got out looking for birds at Jamaica Bay on Sunday morning and is he ever glad he did! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Alas, I didn’t locate any but found enjoyment in a prolonged standoff between mobbing Red-eyed Vireos and a Blue Jay who refused to take the hint.

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2020 ALA Jamaica New York 166

10,000 Birds

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Corey got into Jamaica midafternoon on Saturday and has spent most of the time since then on the beach. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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2020 United States Jamaica Owls 159

10,000 Birds

MAY 31, 2020

But he didn’t get a photo and he really appreciated an extremely confiding American Goldfinch at Jamaica Bay that sat nicely in perfect morning light for Corey and his digiscoping rig. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you?

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2020 Tennessee Jamaica Birds 156

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Until Mute Swans took over Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, gallinules bred there. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sadly, that was before Corey moved to Queens. So it was a pleasure to see one and the gallinule was Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend.

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2019 Breeders Jamaica 2011 166

10,000 Birds

JULY 2, 2024

It’s a book that counterpoints and combines facts and personal experiences, science-based and eloquent writing styles, textual description and visual information, a history of abundance and an uncertain future. I first got a glimpse of it back in August 2023, when Kevin did a presentation at the Jamaica Bay Shorebird Festival.

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North America America 2006 Delaware 259

10,000 Birds

JUNE 17, 2021

Fascinated with New York’s Jamaica Bay, I started dreaming about creating a similar wetland reserve on the Danube inside Belgrade, the very area I explored. Now, I have mixed feelings: cautious and by experience mistrustful, but happy. It all started well three decades ago, when I intensively birded the Danube Backwaters by kayak.

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Serbia Boars Deer Otters 274

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 26, 2018

Corey enjoyed shorebirds on the beach in the Rockaways, in the mud at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Wildlife, and on pavement at Floyd Bennett Field this weekend. But of all the shorebirds he saw he appreciated none so much as the Hudsonian Godwit he spotted on the East Pond at Jamaica Bay. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Jamaica Emotional Owls 100

10,000 Birds

MARCH 3, 2019

He didn’t see a ton of birds but he did appreciate the number of Snow Geese flocking up at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Corey enjoyed getting out and about in Queens on Sunday morning between two snowstorms. How about you?

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2019 Lamb Lions Jamaica 114

10,000 Birds

JUNE 9, 2019

Of what he did see, a pair of Bald Eagles at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge was the highlight, a species that didn’t used to be around in June in Queens at all. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. So, Bald Eagles as his Best Bird of the Weekend. How about you?

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2019 Bald Eagle Jamaica Eagles 115

10,000 Birds

MAY 19, 2019

Late Friday afternoon he was birding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and came across an odd thrasher. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Though I spied quite a few warblers, my best looks were of Scarlet Tanager , a bell-ringer of a bird any day.

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2019 Jamaica New York Birds 113

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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. He flipped a coin and the wigeon won! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Lamb Pennsylvania 2016 Jamaica 154

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 21, 2014

Corey and I were most pleased to see that shorebirds haven’t entirely abandoned the Esat Pond at Jamaica Bay. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. My BBOTW was a weird Dunlin while Corey was most partial to the Pectoral Sandpiper pictured above. How about you?

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2014 Abandon Abandoning Abandonment 182

10,000 Birds

DECEMBER 9, 2018

A rather lackluster Sunday morning’s birding didn’t result in any major highlights for Corey, a bummer considering he was scouting for next weekend’s Christmas Bird Count, but he did manage to spot a sextet of high-flying Common Mergansers at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 113

10,000 Birds

JUNE 21, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was his first Gull-billed Tern of the year at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. They are a graceful tern and Corey appreciated watching it hunt, feed, and fly over the marshes. How about you?

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2015 Jamaica Hunting Birds 165

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 29, 2019

Saturday morning, Corey got out birding at Jamaica Bay without me and Ivy and was very pleased to find a pair of American Avocets at the north end of the East Pond there. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2019 Jamaica Eggs Birds 118

10,000 Birds

NOVEMBER 4, 2018

But his Best Bird of the Weekend was a dabbling duck he found on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, his first Eurasian Wigeon of the year! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 New York City New York Jamaica 114

10,000 Birds

APRIL 15, 2018

But a drake Wood Duck is always appreciated and that it plopped down in front of him at Big John’s Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge made it even nicer. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Jamaica Bears Sparrows 113

10,000 Birds

JULY 29, 2018

Corey spent time on both Saturday and Sunday morning looking at shorebirds on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 101

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. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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2016 Jamaica Falcons Killing 154

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 16, 2015

Corey spent much time on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay this weekend and saw lots of shorebirds. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. One, however, stood out from the rest. American Avocet is always a good bird in New York State and it is Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend.

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2015 Jamaica New York Birds 157

10,000 Birds

MAY 17, 2015

He yelled a relatively unintelligible explanation as he ran to the car, abandoning his family, and sped to Jamaica Bay where he parked and ran out to the breach of the West Pond where he relied upon the kindness of other birders, who let him use their scopes while he got his breath back. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Jamaica 2015 Abandon Abandoning 162

10,000 Birds

JULY 6, 2014

There has been a Black-billed Cuckoo repeatedly reported from Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge since May and it had studiously avoided Corey until Sunday morning, when he heard it calling in the South Garden. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Bald Eagle 2014 Jamaica 2008 200

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 25, 2014

Sunday morning was a perfect morning to get out on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. ” At Jamaica Bay in August the standard peep is the Semipalmated Sandpiper , which is present in the hundreds or even thousands. It was a wonderful experience and I thought it only made sense to share some of it with you.

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Jamaica Wildlife Species Rights 179

10,000 Birds

MAY 21, 2017

Corey’s Beat Bird of the Weekend was a singing male Mourning Warbler at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that was chosen despite it giving a brief awful look. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Still though, Mourning Warbler! How about you?

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2017 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 100

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 18, 2017

Most people I know are obsessing over watching eclipses, to the extent that they’ll be traveling hundreds of miles for a fuller experience. Corey will most assuredly spot shorebirds and other attractions at Jamaica Bay NWR. How about you? Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding?

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Jamaica 2017 Birds Experience 100

10,000 Birds

APRIL 5, 2015

In particular, he picked one of the many that has already staked out a claim to a nest box at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Spring is here! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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2015 Jamaica New York Birds 182

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 13, 2017

Corey enjoyed visits to the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge on both Saturday and Sunday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. First, I witnessed Ruby-throated Hummingbirds haranguing a Cedar Waxwing in suburban Rochester. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2017 Jamaica Birds Wildlife 113

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 31, 2014

Corey got into some great shorebirds and hungry muck at Jamaica Bay , where a group of Hudsonian Godwits proved well worth the cost of a boot full of mud. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2014 Jamaica Birds Groups 159

10,000 Birds

JANUARY 21, 2018

This cooperative bird was found on Saturday in one of the openings in the ice at the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and Corey went and saw it on Sunday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2018 Bald Eagle Philadelphia Eagles 100

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 10, 2017

If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Tell us in the comments section about the rarest, loveliest, or most fascinating bird you observed.

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2017 Jamaica Birds Experience 124

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 30, 2015

Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend could have been any of a multitude of species spotted on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Baltimore 2015 Jamaica New York 145

10,000 Birds

AUGUST 24, 2014

Corey had a bunch of birds to choose from for his Best Bird of the Weekend after having a marvelous time birding Jamaica Bay’s East Pond on Sunday morning with David. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend? Birding best bird weekend'

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2014 Jamaica New York Birds 169

10,000 Birds

SEPTEMBER 7, 2014

He was very pleased to see two of these marvelous shorebirds on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and nearly as pleased to check them off his Queens list. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Number 305! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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2014 Arizona Jamaica Birds 171