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A Wonderfully Cooperative Cape May Warbler

10,000 Birds

Earlier this month I had stopped at Forest Park for a quick, late-morning, visit as we birders in Queens tend to do, especially in May, and was impressed by the diversity and number of birds singing. One bird in particular caught my eye – a brilliant Cape May Warbler singing and foraging from ground level up to about ten feet.

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Butterfly on Flowers

10,000 Birds

That is what we did on a recent visit to the New York Botanic Gardens in the Bronx, a place where the exponential forces of natural world beauty often threaten to overwhelm the senses. Flowers, trees, and landscape all combine to force the forgetting that New York City is all around.