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Blue grosbeak visiting NYC. #birdsNYC #birding #birdwatching #birdphotography
Blue grosbeak male, in profile, sitting on a metal cover.
April 20, 2024 at 8:05 PM
donflan.bsky.social
The beefiest tern in the world, Caspian Tern. Bigger than many gulls, with a pickaxe bills invariably described as "blood red." Brooklyn, NY, early October in the rain. This one's an immature. #birds #birding #terns #birdsnyc
An imposing tern with a black cap and deep orange bill stands in a flooded field in the rain.
March 15, 2025 at 8:38 PM
donflan.bsky.social
White-winged Scoter just off the seawall literally underneath the Verrazano Narrows bridge yesterday for #birdsseenin2025. The closest I've ever been to one of these, frankly speaking, incredibly weird looking sea ducks. #birds #birding #birdsnyc
February 10, 2025 at 7:17 PM
donflan.bsky.social
Rare in fall in NYC, rarer in spring, and most unlikely to spend the winter, this Clay-colored Sparrow is clinging on in this savage January weather in the farthest extremes of the wind-whipped Rockaways, near the beach, eating the last of the grass seeds. #birdsseenin2025 #birds #birding #birdsnyc
January 9, 2025 at 10:42 PM
donflan.bsky.social
Classic urban #birding! That’s me enjoying point-blank views of a Y1 Glaucous Gull that is waiting for the next stale bread-crust handout to happen on a parking lot in south #Brooklyn. Photo courtesy of my man Jeff. #birds #birdsnyc #birdsseenin2024
A man looks out the window of a silver hatchback at a large sandy-white gull standing on a cement parking bollard.
December 20, 2024 at 5:04 PM
donflan.bsky.social
Back in #birdsNYC I had Queens county's 6th ever record of Mississippi Kite, a common bird in the south but an ephemeral very low volume migrant in NYC, usually in the last week of May. On the 23rd I was in Forest Park and a strange combination of gull and raptor passed over a hole in the canopy.👉
A blurry silhouette of a bird with pointed wingtips and a sharp-cornered angular tail passes against an all-white sky.
December 16, 2024 at 6:41 PM
donflan.bsky.social
Today I went out in foul weather scouting Xmas Bird Count rarities. In driving rain and a nasty easterly wind an exhausted young Black-legged Kittiwake was sitting on the Coney Island sand, only Brooklyn's 4th or 5th #ebird record, and my year bird #994! #birds #birding #birdsseenin2024 #birdsnyc
December 12, 2024 at 3:07 AM
domricci.bsky.social
Happy Thanksgiving! Wild turkey, Midtown Manhattan (5/7/2024) 🪶 #birds #birdsnyc
A large heavy-set brown fowl stands upright facing right surrounded by green stems in a planter.
November 28, 2024 at 9:55 PM
domricci.bsky.social
A rufous hummingbird visits a feeder in Prospect Park on Presidents’ Day. A vagrant from the West Coast, this is the first one recorded in Brooklyn. The incoming orange gorgets suggest it’s an immature male (2/19/2024) #birdsnyc #birds 🪶
A small hummingbird with a green back & cap, white front, black bill, and orange wash along its face, sides, wings, and tail perches on a twig. The same hummingbird in flight with its wings outstretched back faces left. The orange wash which gives it its rufous name can be seen along its body. The same hummingbird in flight with its wings outstretched forward. Brilliant green reflects from its head, back, and wing lining. The same hummingbird facing the viewer from behind a red plastic feeder shaped like a flower. Several orange gorgets are visible on its throat.
February 22, 2024 at 2:03 AM
domricci.bsky.social
Encountered a mixed flock of purple sandpipers & dunlin feeding on the wave-washed rocks of Governors Island. Fascinating how deftly they maneuvered around the crashing wakes of passing ships. #birds #birdsnyc 🪶
A dark, stocky shorebird with orange bill & legs stands on a harbor rock. A medium-sized dull brown shorebird with dark bill & legs stands on a seaweed-covered rock. Three sandpipers feeding at the watery edge of a rocky ledge. The brownish one on the left is a dunlin. The two dark ones on the right are purple sandpipers. A flock of eleven sandpipers in flight over water.
December 27, 2023 at 1:26 PM
domricci.bsky.social
A MacGillivray’s warbler unexpectedly hopping around in the Bronx. A vagrant species usually found west of the Rockies, it was found by a 13 year old on their local Christmas bird count! #birds #birdsnyc 🪶
A small songbird with a gray head, yellow body, and bold white eye crescents bops along on the ground.
December 24, 2023 at 8:16 PM
domricci.bsky.social
Cooper’s hawk caught in the act in a John Alton film noir. Central Park Ramble, 2020. #birds #birdsnyc 🪶
December 3, 2023 at 8:12 PM
domricci.bsky.social
Happened upon a plethora of purple sandpipers hopping on the shoreline rocks along the Belt Parkway Promenade in Bay Ridge, Brooklyn. Lifer! (11/25/2023) 🪶#birds #birdsnyc
A dark, round shorebird with a bright orange bill and legs stands on seaweed-covered rock. Three dark, round shorebirds stand together on a rock. They look like pigeons with orange bills & legs. A dark, round shorebird with an orange bill swims toward a rock. A dark, round shorebird with an orange bill & legs pokes around the side of a seaweed-covered rock. Its flank and breast are streaked.
November 28, 2023 at 12:07 PM
domricci.bsky.social
3 purple sandpipers on rocks south of American Veterans Memorial Pier at 74th St in Bay Ridge #birdsnyc
November 25, 2023 at 4:13 PM
domricci.bsky.social
A juvenile peregrine falcon patrols its domain as it considers its dining options among the waterfowl gathered at the Jamaica Bay WR West Pond (11/18/2023) #birds #birdsnyc 🪶
A sleek falcon soars with its long pointed wings outstretched, showing off its heavily barred underwings and streaked front. The same bird zips through the area across a set of posts toward its preferred perch.
November 22, 2023 at 2:25 AM
domricci.bsky.social
This fall’s most frequent greater NYC-area vagrant seems to be the Ash-throated flycatcher. At least half a dozen, including this one we found on a Linnaean Society walk in Shirley Chisholm State Park (11/18/2023) #birds #birdsnyc 🪶
A bird with a gray back, light throat & breast, light yellow belly, wing bars, and orange tinges on its wings and tail perches on a branch. The same bird flies through branches, giving a clear view of its extended primary wing feathers and tail feathers. The latter are orange except where it is dark gray at the edges and across the bottom tip, which helps differentiate it from other Myiarchus flycatchers.
November 22, 2023 at 2:16 AM
domricci.bsky.social
American wigeons at the West Pond in Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge, Queens. Unfortunately, their name is not short for “water pigeon”. (11/18/2023) #birds #birdsnyc 🪶
Two medium-sized pinkish-brown ducks swim to the right. Both have round heads and small gray bills with black edging at the tip and gape. The male on the right has a white hip spot, and a white forehead and backward sloping green eyespot which make it look like a bald guy. The female on the left has a simpler gray-brown head. There’s also a small ruddy duck off to the far left. Similar duck in flight to the left with wings outstretched upward. Gray head with backward swooping green eyepatch, white belly and hip spot.
November 21, 2023 at 2:27 PM
erabeck.bsky.social
A Downy Woodpecker at The Green-Wood Cemetery, working on a Yucca plant. Not exactly wood, but it will do I suppose. #birds #birdsNYC
November 18, 2024 at 9:31 PM
jaxnotjac.bsky.social
Heading to Central Park to bird for the first time (from Florida) in a week or so. Picked up this book from Chamblin Bookmine in Downtown Jacksonville today for fun. #birdsnyc
November 11, 2025 at 11:58 PM
alrom.bsky.social
Good morning! Today's Central Park commute birds: a hermit thrush/zorzal ermitaño, and a female wood duck/pato joyuyo 🪶 #birdsNYC #birdcpp
A hermit thrush standing on a log on the ground a female wood duck, swimming at the Central Park Pool
December 9, 2024 at 3:25 PM
alrom.bsky.social
Here's another bird I got to photograph today in Central Park on my way to work: a white-breasted nutchatch. There's a ton of them around lately! #birdsNYC #birds 🪶
a white-breasted nutchatch perched upside-down and looking up
December 4, 2024 at 8:43 PM
alrom.bsky.social
Hey glad to see the #birdsNYC tag getting some use! I'll make sure to use it too next time I can go out and get some good shots
November 16, 2024 at 8:04 PM
citybirder.bsky.social
3 young Red-tailed Hawks were playing tag with each other all morning at Green-Wood. They were riding updrafts above the ridge adjacent the historic chapel #birds #birdsNYC #birding #birdphotography #redtailedhawk
February 4, 2025 at 8:51 PM
citybirder.bsky.social
Preening time for the Hooded Mergansers #birds #birdsNYC #birding #birdphotography #ducks
February 4, 2025 at 8:44 PM
citybirder.bsky.social
Despite its name, Common Mergansers are rare around NYC. An recent incursion here likely due to frozen lakes & streams to the north. This one is hanging around Brooklyn #birds #birding #birdsNYC #birdphotography #ducks
February 4, 2025 at 8:42 PM