I used my Galaxy S22 Ultra out our car window to capture this one.
Sunset from Whitestone Bridge
Queens
JB Shorebird Fest 2
A few more photographs of Jamaica Bay from the Shorebird Festival on Saturday.
JB Shorebird Fest 1
We attended the 19th Shorebird Festival at Jamaica Bay NWR. It was great seeing lots of old birder friends there. Don Riepe gave a talk and so did Kevin Karlson who introduced his new book. We we went to the East and West Ponds to look at the shorebirds.
Jamaica Bay Plants
A few of the many plants found at Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York City, in June.
Jamaica Bay Wildlife
On June 1st we drove to Jamaica Bay in Queens, New York City. It is one of my favorite places to visit. I forgot the good bug spray with Deet in it and only had some herbal bug spray which was useless, so the mosquitos chewed us up. I gave blood to see a Red-headed Woodpecker there.
Floyd Bennett and Jamaica Bay
After a short stop at Jamaica Bay I decided to visit the community gardens at Floyd Bennett Field to look for butterflies.
Jamaica Bay in March
Landscapes of Jamaica Bay. The first image shows Snow Geese and Brant in flight. I wonder what the plant is. I liked the red color on the leaves.
Jamaica Bay Birds in March
Sunday’s excursion to Jamaica Bay, Gateway NWR.
Jamaica Bay is an estuary on the southern portion of the western tip of Long Island, in the U.S. state of New York. The estuary is partially man-made, and partially natural. The bay connects with Lower New York Bay to the west, through Rockaway Inlet, and is the westernmost of the coastal lagoons on the south shore of Long Island. Politically, it is primarily divided between the boroughs of Brooklyn and Queens in New York City, with a small part touching Nassau County.
The bay contains numerous marshy islands. It was known as Grassy Bay as late as the 1940s. Jamaica Bay is located adjacent to the confluence of the New York Bight and New York Bay, and is at the turning point of the primarily east-west oriented coastline of southern New England and Long Island and the north-south oriented coastline of the mid-Atlantic coast. (Jamaica Bay – Wikipedia)
The Ospreys are back and competing for nesting spots.
