The Snowy Owl in Shell beach was not relocated this morning; as the area is
small and difficult to miss the owl, it must have left the area.
I would appreciate if anyone with extensive experience with Snowy Owls
would help me age and identify the gender. Although it has dark bars,
overall it is too
The Audubon's Warbler was present this morning at Sunken Meadow SP, Suffolk
County, Long Island, feeding and calling in the junipers north of the
foot-bridge and south of the southwestern corner of the eastern-most parking
lot.
It appears to be the same individual as was present last winter--at
This afternoon at Kissena Park, east of the Velodrome in the wet meadow where
few people go;
I observed two American Tree Sparrows bathing at a puddle. In this field there
is an unbroken trail that leads directly to the bridle path east of the
velodrome. This is the path I took when I found on
On our way home from running errands, Ann Shaw and I tried for the
previously reported Barnacle Goose at Van Cortlandt Park in the Bronx. We
found the parade grounds along Broadway empty of geese, but at around 3:30
pm we found the Barnacle Goose on the north end of the Van Cortlandt Park
Lake visi
Jones Beach West End; Pt. Lookout. 5 December
Joe Giunta's 200 Challenge Club looked for early winter birds along the South
Shore of LI.Starting at Jones Beach, we looked into the inlet and birded
the exposed bar at the marina. The number of shorebirds increased as high tide
approached, so
Merrick, NY Lindenmere Drive just south of Merrick Road (40.653845,
-73.550378) had 38 black crowned night herons perched in the trees in over the
water west of the road. Same day I was on Everit Ave just east of Meadowview
Ave in Hewlett Harbor (40.638442, -73.691971) and saw 22 night herons