New York Birders! My name is Dorian Anderson, and I am happy to announce that Biking for Birds, my 2014 bicycle big year project, will be rolling into New York some time around January 19th or 20th. The basic idea is that I am doing a nationwide big year in 2014 using only a bicycle. I am using the adventure to raise money for bird conservation. Bird highlights of the first two weeks in New England (yes, I survived the polar vortex, -20 temps, and 20" of snow on a bike!) include black-headed gull, purple sandpiper, thick-billed murre, dovekie, barrow's goldeneye, glaucous gull, iceland gull, lesser black-backed gull, king eider, rough-legged hawk, eurasian wigeon, snowy owl, short-eared owl, rusty blackbird, and barnacle goose....all without a drop of gas! You can read all about the project at:
http://www.bikingforbirds.blogspot.com Also, if anyone has a secret long-eared or saw-whet roost in the New York City or Southern Connecticut areas, please let me know! I will be making a few attempts at these birds in the next few days, but I would love to get a bit more help. I am also thinking about trying for the Jones Beach shrike. It would be great to have some help finding it, so I'll keep people posted on how I handle that bird. Thanks for the time Dorian Anderson <bikingforbirds [at ] gmail.com> -- NYSbirds-L List Info: http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsWELCOME http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsRULES http://www.NortheastBirding.com/NYSbirdsSubscribeConfigurationLeave.htm ARCHIVES: 1) http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/maillist.html 2) http://www.surfbirds.com/birdingmail/Group/NYSBirds-L 3) http://birdingonthe.net/mailinglists/NYSB.html Please submit your observations to eBird: http://ebird.org/content/ebird/ --
