Great Horned Owlets

by RJ / Added 1 month 4 weeks ago

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Our local owlets are getting big very fast.

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Great Horned Owlet

by RJ / Added 2 months 1 week ago

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Our local Great Horned Owls have finally succeeded in hatching a pair of offspring. This season was their 4th try in as many years.

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Marge's Snow Goose

by RJ / Added 4 months 1 week ago

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After a 2 year absence, it appears that the injured Snow Goose my friend Marge nursed back to health in Green-Wood Cemetery has returned to Brooklyn. This was at Six Diamonds Park on Coney Island Creek.

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2011 Friday's Fotos

by RJ / Added 4 months 2 weeks ago

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This is a short slideshow of my City Birder blog's "Friday's Foto" feature for 2011.

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Avocet in Brooklyn

by RJ / Added 5 months 3 weeks ago

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I found this American Avocet on Coney Island Creek in Brooklyn, NY on December 3, 2011. Not only is it rare to find one of these beautiful shorebirds in New York City, but the previous latest date…

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Brooklyn Ross's Goose

by RJ / Added 5 months 4 weeks ago

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This tiny goose showed up in Brooklyn's Floyd Bennett Field on Monday, November 21, 2011

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Ant Emergence

by RJ / Added 6 months 2 weeks ago

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I spotted what I thought was a termite emergence while birding in Brooklyn's Green-Wood Cemetery. The shimmering, temporary wings of the 4' x 6' patch in the grass caught my eye from quite a distance.…

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Red Knot Route

by RJ / Added 7 months 1 week ago

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In September I discovered a banded Red Knot at Dead Horse Bay in Brooklyn. I subsequently learned that this bird was banded in Río Grande, Tierra del Fuego, Argentina. This Google Earth movie shows…

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American Golden-Plover in Brooklyn

by RJ / Added 8 months 16 hours ago

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I spotted this American Golden-Plover at historic Floyd Bennett Field in Brooklyn, NY.

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Hurricane Irene Backyard River

by RJ / Added 8 months 2 weeks ago

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This is my mother's backyard in Windham, NY after the hurricane. There is normally a small, babbling brook along the back edge of the property. You can see it in the background. The river through…

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Ambergill Falls in Prospect Park

by RJ / Added 9 months 1 day ago

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This is normally a slow moving body of water in Brooklyn's Prospect Park. Hurricane Irene dumped enough water to overflow much of the park's waterways and turn the small waterfall into something more…

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Gray-hooded Gull

by RJ / Added 9 months 4 weeks ago

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This rare gull was found near the boardwalk in Coney Island on 24 July 2011. It was still present on 2 August 2011.

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