The North American Mid-Atlantic region was, in case you haven’t heard, just hit by Hurricane Sandy, a veritable Frankenstorm that caused billions of dollars in damage and claimed many lives in its rampage through the Caribbean to the Great Lakes. Of course, everyone who is suffering in this time of wicked weather is in our thoughts. But I want to know about the birds! Report in, stormbirders… any tempest-tossed rarities on your radar?
Mike is a leading authority in the field of standardized test preparation, but he's also a traveler who fully expects to see every bird in the world. Besides founding 10,000 Birds in 2003, Mike has also created a number of other entertaining but now extirpated nature blog resources, particularly the Nature Blog Network and I and the Bird.
IMpossible to get to the most likely sites here in Essex Co., NJ. Laughing Gulls showed up yesterday at the Kearny sewage outfall, so who knows what was out there today….
I might have gotten out…