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Come@Me Week Round Up

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1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best. 1PM – Meredith: Bald Eagles are Tools. 7AM – Intro Post. 7AM – Corey: Snowy Owls are Superior in Every Way to Great Gray Owls. 1PM – Mike: Lookalike Birds Should Be Lumped. 7AM – Donna: Don’t Mourn for Extinct Birds.

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Welcome to Come@Me Week

10,000 Birds

1PM – Clare: Cameras with AA Batteries are the Best. 1PM – Meredith: Bald Eagles are Tools. We are more refined, merely enjoying invasive species, thinking extinct birds are gone and you should get over it, and that those who like to watch gulls probably have a screw or two loose. 7AM – Intro Post.

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Week 26: San juan Islands

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That, and 10 days back on the way was going to be a great to recharge the batteries after a long round-the-world trip. A pair Bald Eagles were doing fly-bys over our heads , and there were Belted Kingfishers, Canada Geese , A pair of Mallards, and three Great Blue Herons. Here is a small group shot of those Purple Martins.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

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Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform.

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Queens County Bird Club 2018 Big Sit Results

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We had persevered through four years at the top of Battery Harris Platform and could bring our experience to bear on the task of trying to record as many species as possible on a single day from that single spot. Sure enough, it was just to our north harrying a…wait, that’s a Bald Eagle ! Species number 81!

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2015 Queens County Birdf Club Big Sit Results

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We chose the Battery Harris Platform at Fort Tilden, along the barrier beaches of the Rockaway Pensinsula in Queens, because it affords a great view of both the bay and the ocean, as well as a wide expanse of dune scrub habitat. But what, exactly, is a Big Sit?

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Combined Beats’ List – September

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Battery Pt. African Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus vocifer. Pallas’s Fish-Eagle – Haliaeetus leucoryphus. Bald Eagle – Haliaeetus leucocephalus. White-tailed Eagle – Haliaeetus albicilla. US-NC-Creswell-808 Spruill Town Rd W – 35.8355x-76.4209. 05 Jan 2016. 06 Jan 2016.

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