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Recent Highlights

Yellow-throated Warblers put in an appearance in several NYC locations and on Long Island in early April 2005, including one or two individuals in Central Park.

Prothonotary Warblers have also appeared early and in unusual numbers at Forest Park, Jamaica Bay, Hempstead Lake State Park.

A Boreal Owl was found and identified by Jim Demas and Peter Post on December 19th 2004, an entirely unexpected find during the Central Park Christmas Bird Count. This is the first record for NYC and one of the regionally rarest birds to have turned up in the park. You can see some more pictures of it here. The bird was last seen in January 2005.

Recent Photographs:

Yellow-throated Warbler to be inserted.
Harlequin Duck to be inserted.
Kelp Gull to be inserted.

Photographs from 2004:

• Boreal Owl, Central Park, December 2004.
• Rufous Hummingbird, Central Park, December 2004.
• Ash-throated Flycatcher (Prospect Park, December 2004) to follow
• Purple Gallinule (Prospect Park) to follow
• Lawrence's Warbler, Central Park, April 2004.
• Whip-poor-will, Central Park, April 2004.
• Common Redpoll and American Woodcock, Central Park, January 2004.
• Bohemian Waxwing, Island Beach State Park NJ, January 2004.

Photographs from 2003:

• An assortment of recent stuff.
• Photos from the August 2003 Belmar Pelagic trip.
• Long-tailed Jaeger eating silk moth at sea.

Photographs from 2001/2002:

• Contentious Hermit X Townsend's Warbler at Jones Beach.
• NYC-area rarities.
• Nelson's Sharp-tailed Sparrow.
• NYC Hummingbird Photos.
• Two Strange NYC Sparrows/Finches.
• Unusual Tropical Parula in TX.

• A selection of Owl photographs.

NYC Birding:

I'm the list owner and moderator. You can send me email about eBirdsNYC to: ebirdsnyc-owner@yahoogroups.com.

NYC Metro Birding Links

• The eBirds NYC mailing list, now a Yahoo group
• My archive of some of the last posts from the previous eBirds incarnation.
• NYC Bird Report highlights for Central Park today and recently.
• NYC Bird Report highlights for Jamaica Bay today and recently.
• NYC Bird Report recent highlights for Prospect Park, Breezy Point, Fort Tilden, Jacob Riis Park.
• NYC Metro Birding Briefs email list [*].
• East End Long Island archives
• New York State email list [*].
• New Jersey Rare Birds email list [*].
• New Jersey Birding email list [*].
• Northern New York email list [*].
• Hudson/Mohawk email list
• Rare Bird Alerts (national) [*].
• "Difficult" rare birds (national) [*].
• HUMNET (and archives [*])
• Where do you want to go birding: New York.
• Where do you want to go birding: New Jersey.
• New York City Audubon.
• Hudson River Audubon (Yonkers etc).
• New York State Audubon.
• New Jersey Audubon.
• NYC Sierra Club.
• Linnaean Society of New York.
• Patuxent Bird Banding Laboratory (to report banded birds).
• Dianne Taggart's Long Island birding site.
• Newsday site for Long Island bird species.
• Birding in Monmouth and Ocean Counties, NJ

Miscellaneous

Ethics and Bird Photography

• My post on eBirds NYC about Long-eared Owls and bird photographers (and birders, for that matter) was prompted by some irritation about the behavior of some photographers over the 2003/4 overwintering owls.
• Ethics of nature photography from NaturePhotographers.net.
• Search Google for articles on bird photography ethics

Not that the ethics of birding is any less important, but it's been my observation (and others') that bird photographers cause more stress per capita than birders due to the close-approach issue.

Related: my previous little rant about Rob Jett and his self-serving definition of birding ethics has moved here.

Birding Lists

• World Life List
• USA and Year Lists
• Sightings from 2005.
• Sightings from 2004.
• Sightings from 2003.
• Sightings from 2002.
• Sightings from 2001.
• Sightings from 2000.
• Sightings from 1999 and a few from before.
• NYC list.
• Central Park (NYC) list.

Birding Trip Reports (usually woefully incomplete - sorry)

• Florida Keys and Everglades (Dec 1998).
• California in October 1999.
• Texas and Florida in Mar/Apr 2000.
• Texas in Nov 2000.
• Texas-Arizona in April 2001.
• California in July 2001.

Photography

For the thicker-skinned amongst you, see Arthur Morris flip out on the internet (this was copied from the photo.net Nature Forum, but the thread on photo.net has been subsequently edited to increase the average civility in the discussion).

Non-birding stuff

Only my somewhat archaic Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance link.

Comments etc to my email address.