Definitely a tree swallow! There are an amazing number of birds around NY;
even in our neighborhood in Brooklyn we have peregrine falcons...
Alan
On Fri, 8 Jun 2012, Martha Deed wrote:
You have thoroughly grabbed my attention with this. And your photos are
superb. I went birding there as a child with my parents who were avid
birders.
Your bird photo -- a tree swallow?
Thanks for this.
Martha
Alan Sondheim wrote:
Birding and Others
Azure, Adam, and I went birding at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge and
the village of Broad Channel. We stopped and stared at:
laughing gulls :
ospreys :
a cardinal :
a brown thrasher :
a black-crowned night-heron :
tree swifts :
barn swallows :
great white herons :
little blue herons :
mute swans :
mallards :
catbirds :
a cowbird :
a little green heron :
a yellow-crowned night-heron :
chimney swifts :
a purple martin :
common terns :
starlings :
ruddy ducks :
canada geese :
robins :
pigeons :
red-winged blackbirds :
common grackles :
boat-tailed grackles :
crows :
house sparrows :
glossy ibis :
a mocking bird :
double-crested cormorants :
and sanderlings :
and eastern carpenter bees :
and a diamond-back terrapin laying eggs :
and a raccoon :
and flowering opuntia :
the end :
http://www.alansondheim.org/jamaicabay05.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/jamaicabay17.jpg
http://www.alansondheim.org/jamaicabay26.jpg
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