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Second of all, Lewis’s Woodpeckers are birds of the west and they rarely stray to NewYork State. Fortunately, Tom spotted it flying in and landing in a tree over the house and we all enjoyed scope views of a great bird, a lifer for most of us and Isaac’s 400th bird in NewYork State!
It was an invigorating experience and an example of my favorite kind of birding, that of the spectacle. … The post Northern Gannet Show in NewYork Harbor appeared first on 10,000 Birds. Please forgive the shakiness of the video below: the wind made it difficult to get the tripod not to shake. Deno’s Wonder Wheel!
Somehow, despite seeing both species of cuckoo that show up in NewYork, two dozen species of wood-warbler, and host of other birds, he managed to narrow it down. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
Also, I somehow doubt that whether I am stuck at work or not really influences how everyone else experiences spring but this is my blog post so I can use whatever criteria I want to measure how well spring has gone. I moped all the way to Coney Island where I drove with my family on an outing to the NewYork Aquarium.
Our campsite was gorgeous North Lake State Park in the Catskill Mountains of upstate NewYork, where the air is crisp, the forests are largely intact, and the bears force you to be careful about leaving food out when you go to sleep. That’s right, I, along with my family and some really good friends, was camping. Mom has a bug!
But enough about the NewYork Giants’ free agency activity. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. No matter how obsessed with birding you may be, you’ll have those weekends where other concerns dominate your thoughts. What was your best bird of the weekend?
Corey spent a long weekend in his hometown in upstate NewYork, celebrating Christmas in July (to make up for missing Christmas in December due to the pandemic). But none of them were as good as his first Roseate Spoonbill in NewYork State, which he managed to twitch, family in tow, on his way back to Queens on Sunday evening.
All the best birds in my corner of NewYork over the last few months have been shorebirds, which explains why I dragged myself once again to Rochester’s fabled East Spit to bag a rare local Baird’s Sandpiper. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
No, I haven’t lost track of the calendar — though that’s quickly becoming a more common experience in our new reality — but occasionally life gets in the way of blogging, which is what happened this week. I don’t have a proper post ready for you today, meaning there’s no customary Birds and Booze story and review for now.
At least that’s where I added this species to my NewYork list. Corey went for a walk at Jamaica Bay with his family on Saturday evening, after the rain had stopped in NewYork City and went out again, alone, on Sunday morning before the rain picked back up. What was your best bird of the weekend?
Sliding into mid-August in NewYork feels like the easing into a Jacuzzi: the heat may be intense to start, but the good times are just getting started. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
Of all the species he saw he had one that was easily his Best Bird of the Weekend, as it was a new bird for him in NewYork State. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. That’s because very early on Saturday morning he chased a Wood Stork in Suffolk County.
For Rogers, the finding of the sparrow is not just about the rarity of the find or the decline of breeding Henslow’s Sparrows in NewYork State, though she is proud of the first and concerned about the second. She frames her story with first a Doonesbury comic strip (remember Dick Davenport, the bird watcher?)
So far, the closest Roseate Spoonbill to me in Albany, NewYork has been a bird discovered in the last week just over the border in western Massachusetts – but I don’t really care about my list in that commonwealth enough to cross the state line, even if it is for a spoonbill.
What is the best bird you’ve seen in NewYork State and why has it stayed in your memory? This is the question I posed to 10,000 Birds readers in celebration of Corey’s first book, the ABA Field Guide to Birds of NewYork (by Corey Finger, author, and Brian E. So, I treasure every sighting. Or a sequel.)
And what could be better than a new bird-themed brewery opening up less than two miles down the road from me? I first noticed The Warbler Brewery in the Albany, NewYork suburb of Delmar back in November, a little over a week before their grand opening the day before Thanksgiving.
It was a very pleasant experience. The nightjar was singing loudly, almost incessantly, and from the snippets of conversation I could hear it was obvious that the new birders had no clue they were listening to it (NewYork birder eventually pointed this out to them). Florida Canyon, AZ. Here are a couple excerpts.
Corey enjoyed a long weekend in Narrowsburg, NewYork, along the Delaware River at the NewYork-Pennsylvania border. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
The book I am writing is the NewYork edition in the new series of American Birding Association field guides. Officially called Field Guide to the Birds of NewYork , it is scheduled for publication in October of 2015. Inspiration books field guide NewYork' And the references I use!
Red-breasted Nuthatch at Jones Beach State Park, NewYork Ron Pittaway’s famous winter finch forecast includes some some non-finch irruptives, including Red-breasted Nuthatch. Birders across the United States are delighted by the “yank-yank” of Red-breasted Nuthatches on sixteen percent of their outings.
This has been the oddest May migration in memory, at least around upstate NewYork. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The beauty of May, however, is that there are always birds, even if they’re not the ones we expect! What was your best bird of the weekend?
While birders were out birding the coast of Queens on Friday as the remnants of Tropical Storm Fay hit NewYork City, Corey was stuck working. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. If you spend any time in the NYC Metro area, you know what I mean!
One of the rites of passage I underwent as a birder following my move from NewYork City to upstate NewYork was my first winter excursion to the rolling, snow-covered grasslands north of Albany to look for Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ).
On Sunday morning, he followed up on a Golden-winged Warbler report from the day before and successfully connected, making Connecticut Warbler the only regularly occurring wood-warbler in NewYork that Corey hasn’t seen in Queens this year. What was your best bird of the weekend?
He also chased and dipped on a Spotted Towhee in Nassau County, which would have been a new bird for him in NewYork State. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
If you read my weekly posts bookending theweekend birding experience, you know that I pay close attention to phenology. The way the ebb and flow of each season impacts out experience of the natural world must inform our efforts to observe avifauna if we want to optimize our experience. How about you?
Almost every year there are a few birds that stick around at Bryant Park long after they are gone from the rest of the NewYork City area. Still, the experience of seeing birds so close is hard to match. Sometimes they are a very surprising species. Often at least one of the them is an Ovenbird. Ovenbird in Bryant Park.
Out of over 30 respondents, almost everyone wanted money for better facilities, paid staff, on-call veterinarians, emergency vehicles, food, and protected land – from Terry and Lindsay in California to Cindy in Michigan, from Sally in Kentucky to Mickie in South Dakota, and Lisa and Lia in NewYork. wrote Laura, on Long Island.
What I have is a typical Upstate NewYork winter, so this weekend was about adding more typical Upstate NewYork winter birds. Corey made a second attempt this weekend at seeing NewYork State’s first Ferruginous Hawk , which has been seen regularly in the Black Dirt region of Orange County.
Spring happens to be peak raptor migration season in Western NewYork, so I spent some time at one of the nation’s premier hawkwatch platforms. He was rewarded by an extremely rare NewYork State Willow Ptarmigan. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.
I found the experience of authentically aggressive heat rather refreshing, but much prefer my moderate NewYork summers! If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
Back in 1979 NewYork State birders were pleased with the first record of Mississippi Kites in the state when two visited Staten Island and spent nearly two weeks fattening up on the periodical cicadas that emerged in great numbers that year. The sound of so many cicadas is just awesome, as is the sight of so many cicadas.
Mike absconded from NewYork the day I returned and despite missing his connecting flight he is safely in Alaska right now. (At If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. So that will be my Best Bird of the Weekend. At least, I hope he is.) What was your best bird of the weekend?
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was one of the many species of wood-warblers he saw this weekend, which was amazing for neotropical migration in NewYork City. 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'
A juvenile White-crowned Sparrow is an expected bird in late fall in NewYork State but it is always nice when one sits still for a digiscoping session. 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'
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was NewYork State’s first Couch’s Kingbird in the incongruous location of the West Village in Manhattan. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. The calendar year 2014 has just about run its course.
Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a new bird in NewYork State for him, a difficult feat when approaching 400 species checked off the checklist. But NewYork’s first chaseable Crested Caracara was well worth the effort, even though it took two visits to Orange County to see it!
Here in NewYork, the warm portion of October may be naught but a memory. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Halfway through the month, we in the temperate zones are clearly moving from one season to another. What was your best bird of the weekend?
And there’s a good chance that, while they’re at it, they’ll trot out that dubious bit of trivia about the starling being brought to America as a part of some scheme to introduce all the birds mentioned in the works of William Shakespeare to NewYork City’s Central Park.
Our travels this weekend took us on the NewYork State Thruway, which passes through Montezuma NWR. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Sure, we could have survived the blustery flurry, but I’d rather hide until the last remnants of winter blow away!
Corey had a hard time choosing his Best Bird of the Weekend, but picked his first NewYork Blue-gray Gnatcatchers of the year, which he saw in Alley Pond Park in Queens. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?
As I’m sure you’ve heard me mention once or twice, winter comes early– very early –to western NewYork. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. Yet we’ve barely seen a flake of frost so far. This seems at least a couple of weeks off what I expect.
I know that June has a poetic reputation for perfect days , but July in upstate NewYork may offer the ultimate summer nights. The stifling temperatures of a NewYork City heat wave did what even the height of the COVID epidemic failed to do: they prevented Corey from doing a single dedicated birding outing this weekend.
The NewYork Football Giants have won the Super Bowl for the second time in 4 years. The only thing that marred the gorgeous experience with the owls was a coterie of photographers who had decided that their images were more important than anything else and were out in the dunes trying to get better pictures. Not too shabby!
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