Monthly Archives: August 2016

This morning I was out early, headed to Warren Sod Farm to try to finally connect with the AMERICAN GOLDEN PLOVERS. It took me only a short time before I located two of them. First I found one of the … Continue reading →

I have been extremely busy over the last four or five days. Most of it has been chasing birds and the rest was social obligations. To make a long story short, the birding hadn’t been going so well. I made … Continue reading →

I got a call from Bruce Nott first thing this morning informing me he had some distant “grasspipers” at the Warren Sod Farm on Rt. 12 in Orange County. This is the heart of the “Black Dirt Region”. I headed … Continue reading →

I got a call from Matt Zeitler this afternoon that he had found a BAIRD’S SANDPIPER at Six and a Half Station Roads Citgo Pond. I flew down to find Matt with Karen Miller and Diane Bliss enjoying good views … Continue reading →

Its been a relatively quiet week since our big day at sea. I’ve visited Morningside each day and had a total of seven species of shorebird there. Today, only four were present. Least and Spotted Sandpipers and Killdeer and Semipalmated … Continue reading →

This morning a small group of us from Orange and Sullivan Counties headed to Montauk Point to join the Viking Starship Whale Watch. We had a super day, though there wasn’t a whale to be seen. We did have some … Continue reading →

I returned to the Bashakill late this afternoon to see if the Olive-sided Flycatcher was still present. I knew some people planned on coming to see it and was curious to see if it was still there. As I worked … Continue reading →

A nice morning to be out, kayaked Morningside Park and then birded the Bashakill. With the northwest winds from the last two days and the heavy rain overnight, I really expected more shorebirds at Morningside. As it was, the list … Continue reading →

My 2016 top ten predictions for most likely birds to be added to Sullivan County List. Every five years, NYSOA puts out a list of birds predicted as the most likely next additions to the New York State list. When … Continue reading →

Nice mix of shorebirds today. I finally managed to spot the Wilson’s Snipe before I flushed it this morning. It never did flush, but rather scurried through the weeds and under a mass of roots, disappearing completely. We had our … Continue reading →