Jamaica Bay

This past Friday, after leaving Cupsogue where my twitch for the Wilson’s Plover had ended in success I decided to…

Last weekend a Sora was spotted at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and I had no time to go see it….

Peeps are the smallest of our Calidris sandpipers or, as Mike has said here on 10,000 Birds: ‘Peeps’ is the…

It is summer and I live in Queens. That means it is time to look for shorebirds on the East…

Late Saturday afternoon a Tundra Swan was reported from the south end of the East Pond at Jamaica Bay Wildlife…

I had all morning this past Saturday to look for birds. I really didn’t have anything in particular I wanted…

The dog days of July, when birders desperately seek out south-bound shorebirds, odd breeding records, or anything else to keep…

I’ve lived in Queens for eight years now and have visited Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge over one hundred times while…

It is not every day that you get the chance to see a hummingbird’s nest. And it is even less…

Late morning this past Thursday, 27 August, I was on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay. I was only there…