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Sixth Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit An Amazing Success!

10,000 Birds

In the early going our best birds were a flyover Dickcissel identified by its characteristic call note and a Great Horned Owl hooting off in the distance, both birds making only their second appearance in the count’s history. We also saw lots of dolphins in the ocean and Humpback Whale blow. The Big Sit has become popular!

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The Fourth Annual Queens County Bird Club Big Sit

10,000 Birds

Nonetheless, I was out on the platform before six in the morning, well before sunrise, hoping to get nocturnal migrants or maybe an owl. ” Yeah, that’s a Great Horned Owl. The Great Horned Owl in my scope could be seen only through a narrow gap in foliage, and even then it was mostly obscured by the tree it was roosting in.

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