Showing posts with label Audubon. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Audubon. Show all posts

Thursday, June 19, 2014

Great Egret

Great Egret
East Setauket, NY
May 14, 2014

Great Egret fishing in a fishless pond. What is it looking for? Tadpoles?

Learn about the Great Egret.




Kaler's Pond Feeder Station

Kaler's Pond Nature Center Feeder Station
Center Moriches, NY
November 11, 2013

Brown Creeper

First time seeing the Brown Creeper near the feeder station. Although it did not go to the feeders it was looking for insects under the tree bark around the feeders.









Learn more about the Brown Creeper from Cornell Lab of Ornithology.


Yellow-Rumped Warbler

Learn more about the Yellow-rumped Warbler from Cornell Lab of Ornithology.


Cedar Waxwing

Cedar Waxwings come every Fall and eat the crab apples from the tree.

Learn more about the Cedar Waxwing from the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.



Wednesday, June 12, 2013

Great Egret

Great Egret, Artist Lake, Middle Island, NY June 11, 2013

Great Egret with Canadian Goose
Great Egret has black legs and  feet
Great Egret 35" - 41"



Cornell Lab of Ornithology: All About Birds: The Great Egret: Life History, ID, Sound and Video

Previous images of the Great Egret from this Blog.

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Thursday, March 21, 2013

Winter Birds on LI

Winter Birds
 Long Island, NY

White-throated Sparrow

White-throated Sparrow

Downy Woodpecker female

Black-capped Chickadee

House Sparrow female

White-breasted Nuthatch

Ring-billed Gull

Ring-billed Gull




Friday, November 11, 2011

Long Island Council Meeting

The Eastern Long Island Audubon Society Hosted the LI Council Meeting at the Quogue Wildlife Refuge on Saturday, November 5, 2011.

Representatives from all the LI Audubon Chapters come together a few times a year to report events and issues to other LI Audubon Chapters.







Thursday, November 3, 2011

Birds @ Kaler's Pond Audubon Center

There was a good number of Fall Birds at the Kaler's Pond Audubon Center's Feeding Station. Below are some of them.

White-throated Sparrow & House Sparrow (female)
House Sparrow (female)

House Sparrow (male)
Blue Jay
Blue Jay
Black-capped Chickadee
Brown-headed Cowbird (male)
Brown-headed Cowbird (male)
American Robin (winter visitor) 
American Robin (winter visitor)
House Finch (female)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (female)
Red-bellied Woodpecker (male)
Mourning Dove
Mourning Dove