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February 2023
A Mid-winter Walk Through Marine park
Meet 8:30 am at the Salt Marsh Visitors Center (Avenue U) Leader: Peter Dorosh 347-622-3559 (text only) Please register (for weather alert): Prosbird@gmail.com or Prosbird@aol.com Focus: Celebrate winter's halfway point with an exploration of an excellent location for typical winter birds: waterfowl, gulls, and passerines Itinerary: We will hopefully find good reports from the previous week and search for those birds. We may also visit the rarely visited south west section of the park. Notes: Expect a good amount of…
Find out more »Finding Ducks of Jamaica Bay and Rockaway
Meet 7:30 am on the 7th Ave-Park Slope Station Manhattan bound F train center platform downstairs. We will proceed to Jay Street A train for Rockaway. Otherwise, if coming from other locations, you can meet the group at the Jamaica Bay Visitors Center by 8:45 am. Leader: Peter Dorosh 347-622-3559 (text only) Please register (for weather alert and questions): Prosbird@gmail.com or Prosbird@aol.com Focus: Ducks will be our objective with the hope for 15 duck species as well as other winter…
Find out more »“What’s in your backyard?” The Great Backyard Bird Count: PROSPECT PARK
Leaders: Dennis Hrehowsik and Bobbi Manian Location: Meet 8 am at the Pergola entrance, at Parkside and Ocean Avenues. Nearest subway is Q at Parkside Ave station. NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED Focus: Celebrating the Great Backyard Bird Count with the beauty of birds, friendship, and fun discoveries of winter birding. For weather alert, check in on BBC Facebook and Twitter as well as Peter's Prospect sightings blog. For more information about the festival event,see: https://www.birdcount.org/
Find out more »TILDEN AND BREEZY: THE FINAL WEEKS OF WINTER
Leader: Ryan Goldberg Focus: Enjoy the last weeks of winter on the western Rockaway Peninsula as sea ducks, loons, alcids, and other waterfowl begin staging to return north. We'll canvas the Atlantic coast from Fort Tilden to Breezy Point, a long but exciting walk on the beach that takes in some of the city's best dune habitat and protected shoreline, and where we could also turn up open-ground specialists like snow buntings and horned larks and shorebirds such as dunlin,…
Find out more »March 2023
A Journey to Massapequa Preserve by LIRR
Leader: Peter Dorosh Registration: prosbird@gmail.com or Prosbird@aol.com Inquiries or questions prior trip date please email Prosbird@gmail.com Registration period: February 26th - March 2nd Focus: The agenda will be a visit to a renown excellent late winter /early spring birding location mere steps from the Massapequa Long Island Railroad Station. Explore the many wooded trails as well as two water bodies fed by a main stream. Ducks, early spring migrants and other woodland denizens are the enjoyable pursuits. Notes: Bring lunch,…
Find out more »DOODLE OR DIE, NOBODY LEAVES TILL WE SEE A TIMBERDOODLE!: A GREEN-WOOD CEMETERY PURSUIT
Meet 9 am at Greenwood's main entrance 5th Ave and 25th Street Leaders: Dennis Hrehowsik & Bobbi Manian Focus: A search for the American Woodcock, also known as “Timberdoodle”; also early spring woodland songbirds and late winter species, raptors, perhaps eagles and vultures No registration required.
Find out more »Springtime in Prospect Park
Leader: Paul Keim Location: Meet 8 am at the Stranahan statue at Prospect's Grand Army Plaza park entrance NO REGISTRATION REQUIRED Focus: Celebrate Spring a day early with early spring migrants; spring equinox starts Monday afternoon.
Find out more »Coastal Spring in Jones Beach
Leader: Joe Giunta Participant limit: 16 members Focus: The first weekend after spring starts focuses on seabirds, raptors and songbird migrants returning to their northerly breeding grounds. Coastal birding can be exciting in the early days of spring. Registrar: Marisa Wohl email marisaw@earthlink.net Registration Period: March 19th-March 23rd Notes: Bring lunch, plenty of water, warm apparel for chilly weather, and good walking shoes. The walking is flat , on beach and dune trail, casually paced with likely 4 miles combined…
Find out more »April 2023
Calvert Vaux Park, Gravesend
Leader: Max Epstein Participant limit: 16 members Focus: Open space birds, brush margin species, seabirds, puddle type ducks and creek species, raptors, sparrows, and early songbird migrants Registrar: Mike Yuan email mjyuan@gmail.com Registration Period: March 26th-March 30th Notes: Bring lunch, plenty of water, warm apparel for chilly weather, and good walking shoes. The walking is flat, casually paced for about 3 miles. Bring a scope if you own one. Carpool fee: $10 This is a carpool trip; drivers and members…
Find out more »Floyd Bennett Field, Gateway
Leader: Rob Jett Participant limit: 16 members Focus: Open space and field birds, brush margin species, salt water seabirds, raptors and sparrows, early songbird migrants, and possibly outgoing late winter species Registrar: Bobbi Manian email roberta.manian@gmail.com Registration Period: April 2nd -April 6th Notes: Bring lunch, plenty of water, warm apparel for chilly weather, and good walking shoes. The walking is flat, casually paced for likely 4 total miles. Bring a scope if you own one. Carpool fee: $10 This is…
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