New Year’s Resolution
I’ve been living on Long Island for two and a half years now. Although there are a ton of amazing places to bird and explore and odd species turn up frequently I definitely have not taken full advantage of the opportunities presented to me. My resolution this year is to bird LI thoroughly, visit places I have not been, and most importantly to try to see as many bird species as I possibly can on LI in 2012.
After 4 days things are going pretty well. I’ve added at least one new species every day. I tallied 50 on the 1st doing a CBC in Nassau County, and 8 more in the past three days. I am 1 for 2 with western vagrants. I saw the Grace’s warbler at Point Lookout on Monday but wasted a lot of time and gas driving out to Calverton on Tuesday to try for the mountain bluebird which was a bust. For now I am impatiently awaiting a possible Montauk trip next weekend and then the annual NYS Waterfowl Survey the weekend after that.
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Fantastic–I try to increase my New York State year list count every year and make that effort to go out as much as possible (and chase those rarities I can get to). As a non-driver and the news about the Grace’s Warbler tantalized me all week. The Brooklyn CBC was a bit of a bust, btw.
I hope to participate in the NYS Waterfowl Survey but in Brooklyn. And the Brooklyn Bird Club is doing its annual Coney Island outing this Saturday.
I feel sort of guilty that I got home at 3:30 on New Year’s Eve and never made it to the Brooklyn Bird Club’s New Year’s Day walk. It’s just not easy being a birder!
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