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• 10,000 Birds Plus 2, or, Another Dose of Doggerel

  Published: April 10, 2008, 12:59 am

  Tags: Birding Excursions, Alley Pond Park, Doggerel, Forest Park, Jamaica Bay, Marine Nature Study Area, Nassau County, Poetry, Queens

  to meet, The awkwardly named Marine Nature Study Area For a second edition of of rare-sparrow hysteria! I’m sad to say that we again missed our target sparrows Which hurt down to our bones’ marrows. Yes, trust me, I know that no “s” is required To pluralize marrow, forgive me, I’m tired. And I haven’t even

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• Great Egrets at the Marine Nature Study Area

  Published: July 14, 2008, 8:19 am

  Tags: Birds, Features, Great Egret, Herons And Egrets, Marine Nature Study Area, Nassau County

  Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area in Hempstead, NY, a marvelous saltmarsh preserve on the south side of Lond Island, is well known for its nesting Seaside and Saltmarsh Sparrows, to say nothing of the video camera-monitored Osprey nest and breeding Clapper Rails (which this year also had a camera on the nest which allowed viewers to watch 14

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• Black Skimmers at the Marine Nature Study Area

  Published: July 17, 2008, 7:30 am

  Tags: Birds, Features, Marine Nature Study Area, Nassau County, Skimmers

  the Great Egrets at the Marine Nature Study Area, I said that I would be doing a full post about the birding adventure that we had. Well, I guess I’m a liar. Going through the pictures I took (and I managed to fill up my camera) I realized that almost every single shot featured one of three species, so, rather than try to cram two

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• Clapper Rail at the Marine Nature Study Area

  Published: July 19, 2008, 10:30 am

  Tags: Birds, Clapper Rail, Features, Marine Nature Study Area, Nassau County, Rails

  sick of the birds of the Marine Nature Study Area after over imbibing on Black Skimmers and Great Egrets, there is one more bird that Daisy and Kerry and I spotted there that I would like to share with you: a Clapper Rail! After we had been at the preserve for over two hours and I had basically given up on seeing one, though they are

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