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The recent beautiful weather continues, and it was another wonderful morning to be in Estabrook Park. Our wood duck drake continues to float around the pond, and I took a picture on my first visit today because sometimes he’s gone into hiding when I come by again later. I didn’t see our hooded merganser onContinue reading “Some birds come and some birds go.”

The beautiful weather has returned to Estabrook Park, though the air was not quite as still as it was on Saturday morning. The first happy surprise today was spotting a red-tailed hawk at the pond. Even better, it “allowed” me to follow it to the huge oak tree just north of the beer garden, whereContinue reading “They haven’t all left yet…”

The morning was dark and windy, so I opted to take a break from Estabrook and join Donna’s Sunday morning birding group again, and we went to the South Shore Yacht Club this time. I’m pressed for time right now, but the three fun sightings for me were: 1. A few young or female red-breastedContinue reading “South Shore Yacht Club”

Wow, oh wow, what a wonderful morning. It was cool, for sure, but the sky was clear as a bell, and the air was dead calm. Combine that with the reduction in car and construction noise that a Saturday morning brings, and I could hear a leaf drop. It was magical. At the pond, theContinue reading “Some peace and quiet for a change.”

The nice weather continues, with blue skies for a while at least, and with a little less warmth but a little less wind than yesterday. I’ll take it! Our great horned owl was back again this morning, yay, but in a slightly different spot and with eyes only half open. This little red squirrel seemedContinue reading “Just a regular day in the park…”

The sun came up on a picture-perfect morning in Estabrook Park today, and I got out there nice and early. So early, in fact, that I caught our last wood duck sneaking a crayfish out of the pond before the sun came over the trees. The light was still dim, but I believe we canContinue reading “Woody get’s in on the action…”

It was a soggy morning in Estabrook Park, but there was a gap in the rain from about 7am to 8:30, so I snuck in to see if anyone was around. I found this great blue heron just off the near riverbank, and its expression seemed to match the weather. A bit farther north ofContinue reading “A November Soaker…”

The clouds are a little thicker, and the air is a little cooler, but the wind has calmed down a lot in Estabrook Park since yesterday morning, so all in all, not a bad morning. I didn’t see much until I got to the pond, but that place was hoppin’! All the ducks were agitatedContinue reading “Big doin’s at the pond …”

Even though the wind was whippin’, it was a pretty nice morning in Estabrook Park, with unseasonably mild temps, and mostly sunny skies. The big news today is that I finally saw the great horned owl again, for the first time since May 16, I believe, after which the tree it liked to perch inContinue reading “Look whoo-wh’HOO-whoo-whoo’s back.”

The stream of new sights in Estabrook Park has slowed a bit lately, and it’s a Sunday, so you know what that means. It’s time to join Donna and her Sunday Birders and visit someplace new, and today’s location was Coal Dock Park in Port Washington. Yay! It did not disappoint, and our first treatContinue reading “Port Washington!”