BirdBoy

I am heading up to vermont on saturday to do annual birding with the bestest uncle in the world, uncle Michael. He has a cabin in southwest vermont, with tons of birds in his backyard. We are als...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2011/05/memorial-day-vermont.html

I apologize for the lack of a recent post. I am done some awesome birding including cape may in fall, sea ducks in winter, and a trip to costa rica. I have all sorts of pictures to post. In Augus...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2011/04/update.html

Sorry for the lack of posts. Here is a trip I took back on Memorial day Weekend. I went into this spring migration with the confidence I would be able to identify tons of warblers and migratory ...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/07/northeast-kingdom-vermont.html

Went to central park last friday again!! Another great day with some awesome species. had wilson warbler and Bay breasted warbler!!! Also had my favorite magnolia warbler. I got some nice shots. ...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/05/more-central-park.html

Today I went down to Central Park for some may warbler birding. Following reports from the past two days I had high expectations. They came through with 18 species of warbler. The highlights were...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/05/may-2nd-central-park.html

Went down to Long island yesterday. First stop was Heampstead Lake state park. We went for migrants but found nothing. I did find a blue gray knatccatcher nest which is pretty fun to watch. We we...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/04/long-island-birds.html

Palm warblers are always one of the first warblers to reach Ny state. I also have had pine warblers singing in my backyard lately. These shots are of a Palm warbler that is almost in fully breedi...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/04/early-warbler.html

Hello, I am sorry for the late post. Here are my shots from Florida Keys. There are so many I didnt know how to post them. So what I will do is post the link to the flickr set, and post a few tea...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/03/florida-pictures.html

last week I was in the florida keys for vacation. It was a bird haven, I got 53 shots that are up to a good standard for me and will take a few posts. This post is a catch up from shots I got at ...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/02/backyard-shots.html

We finally have off of school this week and I am taking advantage of it. I got lifer red header woodpecker this week, but no shot due to stupidity difficulties. I got my favorite duck in flight t...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/02/some-new-shots.html

I have been enjoying shooting(photographing) ducks this winter. Bufflehead ducks are every where but I have yet to get a good picture, up to my standard. I found a redhead duck which is pretty ra...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/01/duckkkks.html

Hey everyone. Sorry for the lack in posting. School had been rediculously hard this year. I did get my 400mm though and use it as much as possible. The weather has been great the weekends when I ...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2010/01/400mm-fun.html

This is probably the most exciting post I have made so far.In my recent posts I have talked a bunch about wanting a 400mm f5.6 canon lens. Well Bird-Boy has made a financial plan and is a week aw...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/12/countdown-begins.html

The feeling is great when you find a rare bird. I went to croton point park and got this magnificent duck. They are mainly found in salt water, but this guy prefers brackish water. Everything pla...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/11/long-tailed-duck.html

This summer I took a trip to ocean side marine park. It is pretty much a heron heaven. There are numerous black crowned night herons, green herons, and yellow crowned night herons. I got pictures...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/11/green-heron.html

I got a lifer this past weekend. A blackpoll warbler! Although it isnt the pretty spring molt, its a good bird. He must have been tired from a long night trip, because he sat on the ground and le...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/10/blackpoll-warbler-lifer.html

Birdboy does have some luck sometimes. I have been to fire 4 times in the past 3 years, and have hit 3 amazing days. Well saturday was another amazing day. The winds were north west so i left my ...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/10/peregrines-fire-island.html

Im telling you go to fire island on a north wind and you will get birds. We had 20 merlins and 40 kestrels migrating that day. We also had 7 sharpies, which i have one picture of. The Merlins cam...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/09/more-merlins.html

hello, Everyone, I am now back for some more bird posts! I have had a really busy summer. I am now into junior year and it is really hard. Therefore I needed my sleep and havent had time to post ...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/09/bird-boys-back.html

I had a lot better luck with the peregrines this past week. I cant say a lot better because I still havent achieved what I want from them, but thats me being greedy. Atleast these pictures the be...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/07/peregrines-take-2.html

Its summer!! that means sleep and eat and bird. I went to the palisades cliffs to watch a nesting pair of peregrines. By this time the young are about to fledge.While I was watching them and they...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/07/peregrines.html

The part I like most about birding is using knowledge to find birds. There is one part of my town in which there are huge powerlines that have great habitat underneath. I drive by it all the time...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/06/powerlinesbirds.html

I havent talked really about where I am located. I do pretty local walks. I am located a mile from the Hudson River.This is awesome because it is a major flyway for birds. Sadly no warblers move ...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/06/bird-boys-perspective.html

here are some more pictures from the feastival last weekend. My favorite picture is the Eagle Owl face shot. His eyes are awesome red orange. Below is a Goshawk Peregrine falcon Does anyon...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/06/raptors-part-2.html

This past weekend i went to a big falconry gathering here in New York. It was awesome, there had to be atleast 50 different birds of prey. It gave some good oppurtunities to get portrait shots of...

http://bird-boy.blogspot.com/2009/06/raptor-extravaganza.html