Brooklyn Bird Club

Leader: Jose Garofalo Focus: early spring songbirds and late winter stragglers, gulls, sparrows, raptors, and over-wintering seabirds, early wading birds. Car Pool fee: $22.00 Registrar:   Peter Dorosh Prosbird@aol.com OR Prosbird@gmail.com Registration Period: April 4th – April 9th Trip synopsis: The itinerary includes stops first at Conference House, with follow-up visits to Mt. Loretto and Bloomfield Park (formerly a landfill).

Meet 9 am at the Urban Park Rangers Visitors Center https://tinyurl.com/FtGreeneVCtr Leader: August Davidson-Onsgard  AugustDavidsonOnsgard.com Focus: Spring migration of songbirds at a historic park. No registration necessary. Nearest train stations: DeKalb Avenue station; exit and walk 5 blocks east on DeKalb Avenue; Also Fulton Ave A and G lines, walk north on South Portland Ave Site references: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park ; https://tinyurl.com/FTGreeneMaylist

Leader: Rob Jett Focus: early spring grassland and thicket birds, open field species, sparrows, raptors, and possible over-wintering seabirds and gulls, early wading birds. Car Pool fee: $10.00 Registrar: Adelia Honey wood, email honeywood5@yahoo.com Registration Period: April 11th – April 16th Reference: https://www.nps.gov/gate/learn/historyculture/floyd-bennett-field.htm https://tinyurl.com/FBFAprillist

Meet 9 am at the Urban Park Rangers Visitors Center https://tinyurl.com/FtGreeneVCtr Leader: August Davidson-Onsgard  AugustDavidsonOnsgard.com Focus: Spring migration of songbirds at a historic park. No registration necessary. Nearest train stations: DeKalb Avenue station; exit and walk 5 blocks east on DeKalb Avenue; Also Fulton Ave A and G lines, walk north on South Portland Ave Site references: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park ; https://tinyurl.com/FTGreeneMaylist

Leaders: Orrin Tilevitz and Peter Dorosh Note: this is a Metro-North train trip from Grand Central Station; extensive walking requiring good walking shoes (light hiking type). This is a first-time club visit to this preserve. Focus: spring songbirds, warblers, vireos, buntings, bluebirds and typical woodland residents, woodpeckers, sparrows, and ducks at the main lake Train fare: about $22.50, less for seniors http://as0.mta.info/mnr/fares/get_fares.cfm Registrar: Peter Dorosh Prosbird@aol.com OR Prosbird@gmail.com Registration Period: April 18th – April 23rd Park profile: Formerly owned by one of…

Meet 9 am at the Urban Park Rangers Visitors Center https://tinyurl.com/FtGreeneVCtr Leader: August Davidson-Onsgard  AugustDavidsonOnsgard.com Focus: Spring migration of songbirds at a historic park. No registration necessary. Nearest train stations: DeKalb Avenue station; exit and walk 5 blocks east on DeKalb Avenue; Also Fulton Ave A and G lines, walk north on South Portland Ave Site references: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park ; https://tinyurl.com/FTGreeneMaylist

The Brooklyn Bird Club celebrates World Migratory Bird Day every year by holding a Birdathon, in which members form or join a team and go out and count bird species. Typically participants reach out to friends and family for donations, usually a set amount per bird species counted during the course of the day. This year's designated beneficiary TBD. For more information about the Birdathon and the history behind it, go to https://www.migratorybirdday.org/ Please contact Bobbi Manian roberta.manian@gmail.com if you…

Meet 9 am at the Urban Park Rangers Visitors Center https://tinyurl.com/FtGreeneVCtr Leader: August Davidson-Onsgard  AugustDavidsonOnsgard.com Focus: Spring migration of songbirds at a historic park. No registration necessary. Nearest train stations: DeKalb Avenue station; exit and walk 5 blocks east on DeKalb Avenue; Also Fulton Ave A and G lines, walk north on South Portland Ave Site references: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park ; https://tinyurl.com/FTGreeneMaylist

Leader: Peter Dorosh Focus: the peak of migration; with emphasis on shorebirds, songbirds, marsh and water birds, plus early breeding species Car Fee: $110.00 Registrar: Peter Dorosh Prosbird@aol.com or Prosbird@gmail.com Registration Period: April 3rd-– May 8th Trip synopsis: This three day journey ventures primarily to two counties: Cumberland and northwest Cape May with most birding done in the former. With rich breeding territory and beaches that attract shorebirds during the horseshoe crab peak season, hopefully the group will be fortunate to record a good…

Meet 9 am at the Urban Park Rangers Visitors Center https://tinyurl.com/FtGreeneVCtr Leader: August Davidson-Onsgard  AugustDavidsonOnsgard.com Focus: Spring migration of songbirds at a historic park. No registration necessary. Nearest train stations: DeKalb Avenue station; exit and walk 5 blocks east on DeKalb Avenue; Also Fulton Ave A and G lines, walk north on South Portland Ave Site references: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park ; https://tinyurl.com/FTGreeneMaylist

Leader: Ed Crowne Focus: late spring migratory birds, breeding water and marsh species Car Fee: $10.00                                                                                                                                                                                   Registrar   Peter Dorosh Prosbird@aol.com OR Prosbird@gmail.com Registration Period: May 16th   – May 21st Please review our trip guidelines here: http://brooklynbirdclub.org/information-registration

Meet 9 am at the Urban Park Rangers Visitors Center https://tinyurl.com/FtGreeneVCtr Leader: August Davidson-Onsgard  AugustDavidsonOnsgard.com Focus: Spring migration of songbirds at a historic park. No registration necessary. Nearest train stations: DeKalb Avenue station; exit and walk 5 blocks east on DeKalb Avenue; Also Fulton Ave A and G lines, walk north on South Portland Ave Site references: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park ; https://tinyurl.com/FTGreeneMaylist

Leader: Ryan Goldberg Focus/Trip synopsis: Wawayanda State Park, near the northern border of New Jersey and New York, is one of the state's most important natural heritage sites. At about 1,200 feet elevation, its mixed coniferous-deciduous forests, and Atlantic cedar and rhododendron swamps, attract upwards of 80 different nesting species, and quite a few that typically breed farther north. We'll hope to hear and see many of them, including potential rarities like Cerulean and Golden-winged Warblers. Here's an eBird checklist from last June.…

Meet 9 am at the Urban Park Rangers Visitors Center https://tinyurl.com/FtGreeneVCtr Leader: August Davidson-Onsgard  AugustDavidsonOnsgard.com Focus: Spring migration of songbirds at a historic park. No registration necessary. Nearest train stations: DeKalb Avenue station; exit and walk 5 blocks east on DeKalb Avenue; Also Fulton Ave A and G lines, walk north on South Portland Ave Site references: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park ; https://tinyurl.com/FTGreeneMaylist

Leader: Steve Nanz Focus: late spring migratory birds, breeding species Odonata, insects and butterflies Car Fee: $25.00                                                                                                                                                                                     Registrar:   Heidi Steiner-Nanz email heidi.steiner.bklyn@gmail.com or call before 8 pm 718- 369-2116 Registration Period: May 30th   – June 4th Site Profiles:                               https://parks.westchestergov.com/ward-pound-ridge-reservation https://www.dec.ny.gov/outdoor/84520.html http://www.stevewalternature.com/mulberry/lists/wprr_butterflies.htm Please review our trip guidelines here: http://brooklynbirdclub.org/information-registration

Meet 9 am at the Urban Park Rangers Visitors Center https://tinyurl.com/FtGreeneVCtr Leader: August Davidson-Onsgard  AugustDavidsonOnsgard.com Focus: Spring migration of songbirds at a historic park. No registration necessary. Nearest train stations: DeKalb Avenue station; exit and walk 5 blocks east on DeKalb Avenue; Also Fulton Ave A and G lines, walk north on South Portland Ave Site references: https://www.nycgovparks.org/parks/fort-greene-park ; https://tinyurl.com/FTGreeneMaylist

Leaders: Tom Stephenson, Molly Adams and Martha Harbison Focus: Observing and documenting species according to their breeding behavior as part of a community science project. Synopsis: This year kicks off the NY Breeding Atlas III, a 5 year long survey of breeding birds throughout the state. Participants of this walk will be given information regarding how to volunteer using eBird and help record the species breeding in Prospect Park. (Breeding code examples: https://www.dec.ny.gov/animals/7308.html ) Registration is necessary for this walk; it will be capped at 15 participants. Registrar:   Peter Dorosh Prosbird@aol.com or…

Leader: Adelia Honey wood Focus: Emphasis on tern species and breeding beach birds (Oystercatchers, Piping Plover, etc.); Butterflies and wildflowers at a new location for the club. Car Fee: $20.00                                                                                                                                                                                   Registrar:   Adelia Honey wood, email honeywood5@yahoo.com                                                                                                                                     Registration Period: June 13th – June 18th Site reference https://www.nassaucountyny.gov/2802/Nickerson-Beach-Park https://tinyurl.com/NickersonJunelist http://www.friendsofhp.org/site/ Note: In mid June 2019, the trip leader recorder seven species tern; hopefully 2020 will be as productive. This trip leaves quite early from Brooklyn to avoid the high admission fee into…