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Birding at Bombay Hook NWR: Featuring a Snowy Egret (09/22/20)

Birding at Bombay Hook NWR: Featuring a Snowy Egret (09/22/20)

Rich Giannola September 22, 2020 May 23, 2021

This afternoon’s trip covered the Boardwalk Trail, Raymond Pool, Shearness Pool and Marsh, and Bear Swamp Pool. We found great and snowy egrets, prairie warbler, dunlin, red-breasted nuthatch, and two bald eagles (one adult and one immature) along the Boardwalk Trail. Among the birds we …

Birding at Prime Hook NWR: Featuring an American Goldfinch (8/11/20)

Birding at Prime Hook NWR: Featuring an American Goldfinch (8/11/20)

Rich Giannola August 11, 2020 May 25, 2021

I birded today in my usual three areas—Visitor’s Center, Dike Trail, and Boardwalk Trail. Purple martins were active again at the martin apartments outside the Visitor’s Center. Among the 22 species seen along the Dike Trail were gray catbird, American goldfinch, semipalmated plover, semipalmated sandpiper, …