Massapequa Preserve

 I went to my nearby preserve before work just for the "sake of birding".  I saw a and photgraphed a cooperative Red Winged Blackbird.  Just when I thought the preserve had nothing else to offer, I heard, then tracked down a mystery warbler.  I thought I found something uncommon like an Orange Crowned Warbler but was just a greenish Yellow Warbler.

Red Winged Blackbird

Red Winged Blackbird

Red Winged Blackbird

Yellow Warbler

Great Blue Heron, Massapequa

 I saw a Great Blue Heron at my son's school and didn't think much of it until the next day when anther birder posted a photo of it leaning up against the school fence.  Sadly the bird didn't make it.  Old age? something bad happen to it?  Who knows?

FOS Spring Birds

 Went around for a while, had to work hard for FOS Snowy and Great Egrets, Osprey.  I stopped by Bayard where I saw the returning Yellow Throated Warbler.

Jones Beach

 This morning I was by Jones Beach.  Driving in the area I saw a Sharp Shinned Hawk and a very large Raven feeding on a roadkill? rabbit near the tower.  From Wantagh Parkway I saw my FOS Great Egret in the marsh at Wantagh Park.

Backyard Birding

Just a few notes from the last couple of days.  I've been seeing a pair of House Finches making a nest by my yard recently - I wonder if they're the same pair I've seen the last couple of years, I would like to think so.  I had a bunch of Fish Crows in my area the other day.  I also saw a group of 12 large birds fly over today -they were high end but my guess is that they were migrating Great Blue Herons, moving from the southwest to the northeast.

Random photos

 I've been trying to go birding a little bit before singing into work.  Here's some recent photos.

Massapequa Preserve: Red Throated Loon

 With the arrival of some signs of spring (Cardinals singing, Robins on the grass, Red Winged Blackbirds and Grackles returning) I went to the preserve the last couple of days if anything just to see and hear Red Winged Blackbirds.  I went this morning to the "Doris Place" pond and as I was leaving saw a Red Throated Loon at the edge of the stream.  It went into the water as soon as I stopped so didn't great photos, but I was surprised to see one at this spot.