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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of October 2016)

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He couldn’t decide between a Bobolink on the barrier beaches of Queens and the Eurasian Wigeon on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. He flipped a coin and the wigeon won! How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of September 2016)

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Though the birds were a bit fewer and far between than they would have liked they did see some good stuff, including a one-eyed Baird’s Sandpiper on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay that took the honors as Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment.

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Beljarica Backwaters: Some good news announced (but not yet official)

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Fascinated with New York’s Jamaica Bay, I started dreaming about creating a similar wetland reserve on the Danube inside Belgrade, the very area I explored. In August 2016, the newly planned Chinese Belt and Road harbour development inside the most valuable 9 km2 / 3.5 mi2 of the Danube Backwaters in 2014 (cover photo).

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of April 2016)

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Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was a cooperative Blue-gray Gnatcatcher at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge that contentedly foraged while Corey digiscoped. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of April 2016)

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Instead, like every spring, Corey was charmed by the Tree Swallows defending their nest boxes at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge when he visited there Sunday morning. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. How about you? What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Third of July 2016)

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Corey enjoyed visits on both Saturday and Sunday mornings to the East Pond of Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge where he searched through the shorebirds diligently. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (First of July 2016)

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Corey once again had an embarrassment of avian riches to choose from this weekend, from a Ruff at Jamaica Bay on Friday morning to a Red-shouldered Hawk over his parents’ house on Sunday. If you’ve blogged about your weekend experience, you should include a link in your comment. What was your best bird of the weekend?

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