10,000 Birds
JUNE 29, 2013
We boarded the 8:40 pm red-eye from JFK to Reykjavik on May 28; the intention was to sleep on the plane but with the excitement of travel and possibilities swirling around my head I didn’t sleep a wink (*tip – Iceland Air offers free stopovers for up to seven days as you travel from the US to Europe!
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 24, 2015
My visit on Saturday morning was meant to be a quick stop to scan the ducks, geese, and gulls to see if anything interesting was around. The Ruddy Ducks looked miserable but the grebe and the coots seemed to be doing fine. Such a cold Ruddy Duck. Iceland Gulls look good even when surrounded by goose poop.
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10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 18, 2018
They found twenty-four species of ducks, geese, and swans, not bad for a half-day. But Corey’s Best Bird of the Weekend was incidental, non-waterfowl find along the way, an Iceland Gull at Jacob Riis Park. Corey spent a half-day on Sunday with his friend Seth doing a dry run for his “Waterfowl in Queens” challenge.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 4, 2013
Sure, we got a couple of young Iceland Gulls that didn’t stay with the boat for long and, yes, a couple of nice Lesser Black-backed Gulls were cool, but no Black-legged Kittiwakes , no Glaucous Gulls , and nothing else other than Great Black-backed Gulls , Herring Gulls , and a few Bonaparte’s Gulls.
10,000 Birds
JANUARY 15, 2015
ducks at dawn. Iceland Gull. Iceland Gull 2. But I can’t resist getting out to sea and trips organized by Sea Life Paulagics out of Freeport, New York, don’t happen more than a few times a year so I had to go for it. Northern Gannet. Razorbill 37. Common Murre 8. Dovekie 87. Lesser Black-backed Gull 4.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 17, 2015
Following the easy tick of a long-staying Harlequin Duck at the pier in Rodanthe, things got harder. The ducks, like this Northern Pintail , are plentiful and unworried at Bodie Island. The Iceland Gull at Wanchese was a no-show. It was then that things started falling apart.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
We made our way from our boat’s berth out to and around the tip of Breezy Point, seeing the typical and expected ducks like Long-tailed Duck and Red-breasted Merganser. Therefore the seven of us who climbed aboard a boat in Brooklyn early yesterday morning did so without trepidation, indeed, we were eager to get out on the water.
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