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

January 13, 2010: Visiting Washington, D.C.

We spent today touring the Mall area of Washington, D.C.

A Northern Mockingbird on the mall near the Korean Memorial

 

House Sparrow near the Holocaust Memorial

White House

The Smithsonian Museum of Natural History had some great mounts:

Carolina Parakeet

Passenger Pigeon

Hooded Warbler

Eastern Towhee

American Woodcock

Bobcat Catching a Quail

A variety of warblers

Ovenbird

Black and White Warbler

Yellow-Headed Blackbird

A nice aquarium shot

More shots along the mall

Above and Below: Washington Monument

Lincoln Memorial

Washington Monument from the Lincoln Memorial

Korean Memorial

National Museum of the Native American

U.S. Capitol Building at Dusk