10,000 Birds
APRIL 12, 2011
Because of my job I have, of late, been spending lots of time in southern New Jersey. Of course I have not been spending time in the southernmost part of New Jersey because, as a birder, I could never be lucky enough to have to work in Cape May. Keep singing, Song Sparrow , and people of Camden, keep struggling.
10,000 Birds
APRIL 6, 2012
Nonetheless, when work was done I decided to make an attempt, and made my way from New Jersey across the George Washington Bridge, which was at a near standstill; the Cross Bronx Expressway, which was also slow; the Whitestone Bridge, which was actually relatively traffic-free; and down the Cross Island Expressway, which was packed with traffic.
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10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2022
I was glad I had my spotting scope with me and that I had practice spotting ‘Buffies’ from hours of searching sod fields in Long Island and New Jersey. Behrstock, and Seth Davidson, with maps by Cindy Lippincott, Texas A&M University Press, 2008. –and, after much looking, Buff-breasted Sandpipers.
Animal Ethics
MAY 11, 2008
It tends to be the Jersey natives who drive too fast and refuse to build fences in their backyards who view wildlife as the enemy. May 5, 2008 You also note that “counting deer is an imprecise science” and that an aerial survey is expensive, “but some believe it yields the most accurate count.” DiVincenzo Jr., the county executive.
10,000 Birds
NOVEMBER 30, 2013
For thirty-five of those years the compiler was Bob Dieterich, who passed the reins to Ian Resnick in 2008, the year I did my first count. For eighty years now, the birders of Queens have given up one day in December to participate in the Queens County Christmas Bird Count. And if they did we would surely send them packing!).
10,000 Birds
MAY 3, 2016
It was my second field guide, and I quickly gave it that worn look I imagined all “real” birder’s field guides had by dropping it into the creek at Allaire State Park in New Jersey (by accident!). I purchased my first Sibley— The Sibley Field Guide to Birds of Eastern North America —in 2003.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 12, 2012
Other species often take advantage of the sapsuckers wells, most famously in New York City the Scott’s Oriole that graced us with its presence back in 2008. The best way to distinguish a sapsucker from the other woodpeckers in New York City is the lack of stark contrast. Juveniles lack red altogether.
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