by admin | Jun 15, 2023 | Bird Feeder Survey, The Sandpiper
Feeder Survey JANUARY/FEBRUARY/MARCH 2023 Years ago, while walking through a park in Manhattan, I noticed a young man eating his lunch, a male house sparrow hopped over, cocked his head and looked at him, the young man immediately responded by tossing a bit of bread...
by admin | Feb 16, 2023 | Bird Feeder Survey, The Sandpiper
Feeder Survey NOV/DEC 2022 The Yellow-shafted Flicker, a large member of the woodpecker family is one of my favorite birds and it made January 1, 2023 a great start to my new year when I had a rare (for me) sight of one scarfing down the suet at my feeder. The...
by admin | Jan 31, 2023 | Bird Feeder Survey, The Sandpiper
Feeder Survey Fall/Winter 2022-2023 Writing this in the beginning of October, I was going to comment on the dry summer we just experienced, but Mother Nature did a turn around and we are now experiencing the dregs of Hurricane Ian, the final consequences of which are...
by admin | Sep 9, 2022 | Bird Feeder Survey, The Sandpiper
Feeder Survey Fall 2022 The day after we cleaned out last year’s nesting material from a House Wren’s box the male proceeded to pack it with twigs as long as 9 inches long, it’s hard to believe that a bird as tiny as a wren could ever fit inside not to mention raise a...
by admin | Jun 24, 2022 | Bird Feeder Survey, The Sandpiper
Feeder Survey Summer 2022 I started birding in New York City over sixty years ago the last 55 of which were spent in Suffolk County birding and feeding birds, I’ve become aware of how the population of some species has crept up. My first sight of a Mockingbird on Long...
by admin | Feb 10, 2022 | Bird Feeder Survey, The Sandpiper
Feeder Survey: Spring 2022 Recently, Wild Turkeys have become a more common sight on Long Island, you see them walking on the grass alongside highways and at Morton’s Wildlife Refuge, also visiting the Horman’s backyard in November. Turkeys were first domesticated in...
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