Building Birdfeeders  by Jody Banaszak  Since COVID-19 began last year everyone seems to be picking up new hobbies to pass the spare time. If you love nature and you also love arts and crafts , we have just the hobby for you! Maybe you always wanted to get into...

Hello my little birding friends!! Hope you are all well and are enjoying watching the birds. My little birds can’t wait for me to fill the feeders. They don’t even wait until I’m done before they fly over! The mallards, now about 40, come to eat the cracked corn we...

One morning at Heckscher Park, I came across a herring gull trying to pick up a dead, two inch baby flounder off the pavement. It must have found it on the sandy beach and waddled it back to the walkway. After a number of attempts, it finally managed to grab it again with its beak, but that was as far as it went.

Due to a shortage of their natural food in the north, large mixed flocks, (Juncos and assorted Sparrows) visited LI last fall, along with those flocks were “Little Birds” these are the small birds such as Redpolls, Siskins, Kinglets, Nuthatches, and Brown creepers,...