Been birding, been momming, been working, been social, even had an adult only weekend. So in that timeline, blog upkeep has been not a priority. Good news is, on this ultra frigid day where I had zero desire to be outside, I can catch up a bit! In the time its been, I've led some bird outings, birded with friends, and birded solo, so it's been a bit of everything.
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On a walk with RISE and NYC Plover Project, I took on a small group to walk the beach with. Enjoyed this common loon downing a crab. |
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Buffleheads were not in short supply. Saw a number diving along the shoreline. |
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*bloop* |
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There were no shortage of ring-billed hulls, but likely the best and most rewarding part of this walk, in the Edgemere neighborhood was getting a number of folks on a razorbill, for many, their first ever! |
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Last weekend, I visited Baisley Pond Park on Saturday to enjoy the variety of ducks, including this American Wigeon. |
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Of course, the Baisley Pond Park phenomenon, always reliable for redheads. |
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Also very reliable are the Ring-neck ducks. This is a female trailing a male.
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A gorgeous American black duck. |
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A fairly disgruntled ring-billed gull who made a stink after some bread was dumped. |
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Bread dumping is annoying, but always makes for good opportunities to photograph gulls. |
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After Baisley, I stopped off at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. The East Pond was fairly sparse, but this red-breasted merganser was one among the ruddy ducks she was floating with. |
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My favorite part of Jamaica Bay winters are the snow geese. I love their giant, noisy flocks. |
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I was hoping to catch a Northern Pintail this day, and how lucky was I, had two flyover and this third swimming on the West Pond. |
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Last Sunday I co-led a bird eventwith an amazing birding friend for the Feminist Bird Club. We didn't even get away from the parking lot before seeing our first birds, a pair of American Kestrels. |
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This female kestrel flew in to join the male we spotted originally. She was rather close, but only silhouetted from our angle. |
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Had a far off belted kingfisher who later decided to give us the fly-by without a glance back. |
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While viewing an eared grebe, a rarity for these parts we didn't realize a group of four killdeer were watching us! It was a great walk, lots of weird ducks to spy and on our way out, we had a kestrel with a vole just tearing into her meal right in front of us. |
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