April 17, 2011: Birding Long Island, Visting Manhattan, and Drive Home

We started out with some photos from around our hotel in Westport, then Oceanside Nature Center and Jamaica Bay before heading home via Manhattan

Above and Below: Monk Parakeets at our hotel

Oceanside Nature Center

Great Egret

Tree Swallow

Brant

Osprey

Blooming Flowers

Diving Osprey

Jamaica Bay NWR

Flying Gadwall

Above: Enjoying the planes taking off from JFK

A view of Manhattan

Flying Shoveler

Flying Brant

Fort Tilden NHS (Brooklyn, New York)

Forsters Tern

A view of the Atlantic from the beach

More scenes from the beach

American Oystercatcher

Common Merganser

Brooklyn sign!

Vertical car-park in Manhattan

Trump Tower!

American Museum of Natural History

Signs on the ride home through New Jersey and Pennsylvania

New Jersey Meadowlands

April 15, 2011: Birding Long Island (Jamaica Bay and Jones Beach)

We started out the morning at Jamaica Bay NWR near JFK

Song Sparrow

Brown-Headed Cowbird

Tree Swallow on his nest

a raft of ducks, mostly Scaup

Double Crested Cormorant

American Kestrel

Lots of shots of Glossy Ibis today (a first time photographing of this species)

We also got some nice shots of flying Brant

Greater Scaup

Above and Below: Flying Osprey

Little Blue Heron

lots of Ruddy Ducks

Forster's Tern

Great Egret

Above and Below: Views of the Manhattan Skyline from Jamaica Bay

Jones Beach State Park

Northern Flicker

Above and Below: Common Loon

Sanderlings

Northern Mockingbird

Below: Brants at Jones Beach

Below: American Osytercatchers on the beach

A few Long Island Road Signs