Past Events › Field Trips

Leader: Rob Jett Participant limit: 16 Focus: Primarily coastal waterfowl and ducks, gulls and beach habitat species Registrar: Dennis Hrehowsik deepseagangster@gmail.com Registration Period: January 14th- January 18t Note: Dress warmly for the cold season. Bring lunch and scope if you have one. This is a public transportation trip. Check train alerts in case there is interrupted service.

Leader: Chris Laskowski Participant limit: 16 Focus: Brackish water ducks and geese, miscellaneous marsh species, gulls, raptors, wintering passerines, woodpeckers at an excellent winter location Registrar: Chris Laskowski,   celaskowski@yahoo.com Registration Period: January 21st-January 25th Marine Park Ebird checklist: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L154031 Note: dress warmly and bring lunch and a scope if you own one. Car Pool fee: $10

Leader: Peter Dorosh Participant limit: 16 Note: this is a Long Island Railroad trip to Oyster Bay; details provided upon registration. The walking totals approximately 4-5 miles at a casual pace. Dress warmly, bring lunch and a scope if you have one. Focus: with locations in proximity to the train station, the primary focus will center on coastal sea birds, ducks, gulls and wintering passerines in a second BBC visit to this birding area. In February 2019, a Pacific Loon was found offshore . Registrar: Peter Dorosh …

Meet at 9 am at the feeders on Breeze Hill (same location as Smorgasburg) https://www.prospectpark.org/location/breeze-hill/ No registration required. Leader: Tina Alleva Focus: Celebrating the mid winter event counting feeder birds and beyond Event details: https://www.birdcount.org/

Leader: Ryan Goldberg Focus: Enjoy the last weeks of winter on the western Rockaways as ducks, loons, and other waterfowl begin staging to return north. We’ll walk from Fort Tilden to the Breezy Point Tip, a long, exciting beach walk that follows some of the city’s best dune habitat and protected shoreline. We're likely to see hundreds or thousands of gannets, and we could also turn up wintering favorites like snow buntings and horned larks. Registar: Ryan Goldberg, ryan.goldberg@gmail.com Registration…

Leader: Max Epstein Participant limit: 16 Focus: Brackish and salt water ducks, geese and waterfowl, miscellaneous marsh species, early shorebirds, gulls, raptors, late wintering passerines, early grass species and sparrows at an excellent winter location Registrar: Mike Yuan email mjyuan@gmail.com Registration Period: February 25th-February 29th Chisholm State Park Park Ebird checklists: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L831645, https://ebird.org/hotspot/L671525 Note: dress warmly and bring lunch and a scope if you own one. Car Pool fee: $10

Leader: Peter Dorosh Participant limit: 16  Current club members get priority. Focus: Exploring new locations to discover birds in an all-day adventure Registrar: Peter Dorosh; email Prosbird@gmail.com or Prosbird@aol.com Registration Period: March 10th-March 14th Car Pool fee: $20.00.  Drivers get priority. Checklists: https://ebird.org/hotspot/L229904, https://ebird.org/hotspot/L786203, https://ebird.org/hotspot/L2190730 References: https://www.fykenature.org/celeryfarm.php http://www.franklinlakes.org/flnp