Warblings

Since we are now in the peak migration period for Broad-winged Hawks in the northeast, I figured I’d share some videos I took this afternoon at the Quaker Ridge Hawk Watch in Greenwich, CT (ove...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/09/16/tis-the-season/

(Be sure to also see Part One of this post.) If one visited Matinicus Rock during the day, finding evidence of Leach’s Storm-Petrels (short of checking burrows) would be hard to find. At night,...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/matinicus-rock-part-2/

(Be sure to also see Part Two of this post.) I just returned from three weeks on Matinicus Rock, in Maine’s Penobscot Bay. About twenty miles off the coast of Rockland, the 23-acre Rock is home...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/08/15/matinicus-rock-part-1/

For eleven days in mid-April, I had the opportunity to travel to Costa Rica with a group from my school. The goal was to have some fun and improve our spanish-speaking skills, but, of course, the...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/04/29/costa-rica/

Yesterday afternoon (2/27) I stumbled across a Cackling Goose at Croton Point in Croton-on-Hudson, NY. While this species is more regular in New York State to the southeast of Croton (i.e., Long ...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/02/28/croton-cackler/

Put your ID skills to the test with this brief bird sound quiz! (Don’t worry, it’s not a songbird flight call.) CLICK THIS LINK to hear the sound (20 seconds, 1 MB). And here’s the spectrog...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/02/26/audio-quiz/

Flight calls. Exceedingly short, often similar-sounding, most easily heard in the wee hours of the night--and present in substantial numbers during only a handful of nights per year. Sure, the id...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/02/19/flight-calls-why-bother/

Thanks to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I had no school yesterday (actually, I have no school today too because of the “snow”, so I guess that makes it a four-day weekend), and, of course, ...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/01/18/a-three-day-weekend/

It's 3:30 AM on January 1st, 2011, and my alarm clock is beeping. Two hours of sleep, not bad, considering the date. Time to finally start off the year right!

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/a-new-years-birding/

Due to overwhelming interest from nearby counties in the state, we have decided to expand the eBirdathon 2011 contest to also include Rockland, Orange, Putnam, Sullivan, Ulster and Dutchess cou...

https://warblings.wordpress.com/2011/01/03/ebirdathon-2011-update-more-counties/