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Settling the Scores
I suffer from acute birding FOMO. Passing up on opportunities for exploration and discovery, especially alongside friends, bums me out. Last year, Taylor and Brent worked to organize a grassroots bird survey in the style of Audubon’s official Christmas Bird … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, Audubon, binoculars, biology, bird, birding, bluebird, camera, canvasback, catbird, cbc, centerport, creeper, crow, duck, earth, ecology, environment, flicker, flock, goose, grebe, gull, huntington, kinglet, life, merganser, montauk, nassau, NATURE, New York, northport, ornithology, owl, oyster bay, photography, pintail, raven, razorbill, research, sayville, school, science, scope, scoter, solitaire, suffolk, swan, teal, USA, wigeon, winter
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YESvember!
Late fall always seems to bring the excitement. As southbound migration begins to slow down, the potential for weird surprises comes to a peak around the time that expected wintering birds start to arrive. November is a great time of … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, autumn, biology, bird, birding, boat, cetacean, cormorant, dolphin, duck, earth, ecology, environment, fall, flock, goose, gull, horizon, humpback, jaeger, Jones Beach, life, Long Island, loon, migrant, migration, minke, montauk, nassau, New York, OCEAN, photography, pipit, robert moses, school, science, sea, sea watch, seal, shearwater, suffolk, swallow, tern, USA, vagrant, valley stream, whale, wigeon
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Foggy Photography
Sunday had a tough act to follow after the successes of Saturday, but I was still determined to make that most of my weekend. The forecast predicted foggy, gray weather throughout the day with wet and stormy conditions blowing in before … Continue reading
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Tagged aba, bay, bird, bird of the year, birding, cbc, christmas bird count, duck hunting, earth, environment, flock, fog, forest, goose, great horned, hawk, hempstead lake, hendrickson, january, Jones Beach, lake, learning, life, Long Island, merganser, nassau, New York, OCEAN, owl, oystercatcher, park, pink-footed goose, rain, redhead, ruddy, sandpiper, school, science, snowy, teal, turnstone, weather, wigeon, WILDLIFE, winter, woodpecker
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Finding 400
As I closed in on the end of September, the three-quarter point of the year, I had a few noticeable gaps in my 2016 list. There were only two more birds to go until my self-imposed goal of 400, and I … Continue reading
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Tagged animal, big year, binoculars, bird, birding, blackbird, central park, deer, duck, environment, fire island, hempstead lake, life, Long Island, nassau, NATURE, New York, nyc, osprey, queens, rabbit, robert moses, science, spadderdock, squirrel, suffolk, swallow, vireo, warbler, wigeon, WILDLIFE, wren, yellowthroat
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Weathering the Storm
On Friday night I’d made plans to catch up with an old coworker. Julie, a former member of the Project Puffin team, was in town for a conference, so we decided to meet in Manhattan. After we unsuccessfully entered the Hamilton ticket … Continue reading
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Tagged animals, biology, BIRDS, Blizzard, coot, duck, ecology, falcon, family, fun, gadwall, grebe, hamilton, hempstead lake, How I Met Your Mother, kingfisher, lynbrook, Mcgee's, merganser, NATURE, peregrine, pintail, raven, shoveling, smith pond, Snow, snow fort, teal, weekend, wigeon, WILDLIFE, winter, winter storm jonas
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