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

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At five-forty-five Sunday morning I started the eBird checklist while perched atop the Battery Harris Platform at Fort Tilden. It was the sixth year in a row of the Queens County Bird Club Big Sit, my favorite event of the year. One of those birds was new to our cumulative list, a Cape May Warbler ! and Lincoln’s Sparrow.

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2017 starts off with Black-throated Sparrows

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This is a chance to recharge out batteries, spend a little quite time together and try to get in a whole bunch of birding done. This allows me to see frigates, boobies, terns and pelicans on the saltwater side. This year we traveled to the same spot as last year, a few miles past El Sargento, to the end of the dirt road.

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Only for Dogs and Birders – Kalamas Delta, Greece

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“The estuary and the delta of the River Kalamas form the most important wetland of northwest Greece”, so the “ Birding in Greece ” guidebook claims for the area where I am heading, a bit late since I overslept this morning. Yet, beside a few Little and one Great Egret , a raft of Eurasian Coots , no birds. It is getting a bit hot.

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The Greek Strategy

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Have you read my blogs on birding Greece ? But, however successful it proved to be at the moment, waiting for accidental appearance is not the best birding tactic. On both routes, some 50-60 km / 30-40 mi from the border lies one magical lake where you should spend at least two nights and devote one full day to birding.

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A Brown Booby in Queens

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What that meant for me, birding wise, is that I could get out for a few hours in the morning and then get home and get to it on my laptop without having to worry about things like showering, getting dressing, or commuting. The first bird that came into view made me think. And this bird was way out over the water.

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Collaborative List – October 2019

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14 countries were birded this month by 13 beats; a record participative effort! Lake Panic Bird Hide. Lake Panic Bird Hide. Lake Panic Bird Hide. Lake Panic Bird Hide. Gray Go-away-bird – Corythaixoides concolor. Fort Tilden–Battery Harris Platform. has reached 54. 21 Oct 2019.

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Hurricane Irene Birding Wrap-Up

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There might be some question as to if the birding that resulted from Hurricane Irene on Sunday, 28 August 2011, was the best birding ever in New York State but any day that can even be entered into that conversation is going to feature some amazingly good birding. feet, overtopping the sea wall in several locations.