Today I spent a half hour during lunch hour plus a little less than a hour after work watching raptors over Park Ave. from a convenient seat near 52nd St.
Friday, March 14, 2008
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Interested in nature with a focus on birding and astronomy. Current project is a visual hunt for novae or exploding stars in the Galaxy from New York City. Got hooked on discovering things while birding and found that the hunt for novae in NYC is right up my alley.
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selected posts
- 18-Dec-‘05 Asterism discovery in Auriga
Links: [W] [1] [2] [3] - 30-Jun-‘06 Anhinga over Central Park's Reservoir
- 9-Aug-‘06 Hawk with juv. & adult tail feathers
- 24-Feb-‘07 Image of Bald Eagle in Central Park
birding blogs: other US
- 10,000 Birds (N.Y.)
- Bell Tower Birding (Mich.)
- Bill of the Birds (Ohio)
- The Birdchaser (Pa.)
- Birdfreak: The Bird Conservation Blog (Ill.)
- BRDPICS (Colo.)
- A DC Birding Blog (D.C.)
- Mike's Birding & Digiscoping (Wis.)
- Minnesota Birdnerd (Minn.)
- Sibley Guides
- Somewhere in NJ (N.J.)
- Tails of Birding (Vt.)
- Wildbird on the Fly (Calif.)
- woodcreeper.com: radar (N.J.)
Standard abbr. used for the U.S. (Calif. = California).
birding blogs: global
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1 new: 12-Jun-2011
- — The Urban Birder (UK)
- Hakodate Birding (JP)
- The House & Other Arctic Musings (CA)
- Peregrine's Bird Blog (IE)
- pewit (UK)
- A Snail's Eye View (AU)
2-letter postal codes used for countries (CA = Canada).
wildlife photography
- Ardith Bondi (N.Y.C.)
- Karen Fung (N.Y.C.)
- Phil Jeffrey (N.J.)
- Lincoln Karim (N.Y.C.)
- Nabil (N.Y.C.)
- Steve Nanz (N.Y.C.)
- Lloyd Spitalnik (N.Y.C.)
- Cal Vornberger (N.Y.C.)
Standard abbr. used for the U.S. (Calif. = California).
birding sites
- American Ornithologists' Union
- Bird Banding Laboratory
4-letter codes, 6-letter codes [desc.] - Birdingonthe.Net [Regional Mail]
- The Birds of N. America
- — Breeding Bird Atlas: NYS (DEC)
- Breeding Bird Survey: NYS (USGS)
- Checklist: Birds of Sullivan Co.
- Checklist: Birds of Central Park
- Checklist: Birds of Westchester County
- Checklist: NYC Birds (Phil Jeffrey)
- Checklist: Shawangunk Grasslands N.W.R.
- Checklists of the U.S.
- eBird—Cornell Lab of Ornithology
- eBirds NYC— a NYC birding list
- Hudson River Audubon Society of Westchester
- the Internet Bird Collection
- LIBirds.com (Long Island, NY)
- Mailing list archive: NYSBirds-L
- Mailing list archives at LISTSERV.KSU.EDU
- Mango Verde
- N.Y.C. Area RBA Report App
- N.Y.C. Audubon
- N.Y.C. Birds (P. Jeffrey)
- N.Y.S.A.R.C. — N.Y.S. Avian Records Committee
- N.Y.S. IBAs [PDF file]
- N.Y.S. Ornithological Association
- Ocean Wanderers: Pelagic Birding
- Pipes for NYC, NYS & NJ Birding Lists
- SORA: Searchable Ornithological Research Archive
- The Town of Oyster Bay
- WayBackMachine: Web Archive
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new york city bird report
- NYC Bird Report: 288 species at 9 sites in 2007 — with 33 species seen only at 1 location (excl. EurGol & LawWar) & 71 species seen at all 9
- • Jamaica Bay [229]: T-Y-H
- • Central Park [206]: T-Y-H
- • Mount Loretto [205]: T-Y-H
- • Prospect Park [199]: T-Y-H
- • Fort Tilden [186]: T-Y-H
- • Floyd Bennett F’ld [172]: T-Y-H
- • Breezy Point [161]: T-Y-H
- • Jacob Riis Park [135]: T-Y-H
- • Forest Park [132]: T-Y-H
maps / timetables
- Hop Stop: MTA Trip Planner
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MTA Bus Maps:
NY, Bx, Q, K, R -
MTA Bus Timetables:
NY, Bx, Q, K, R, Bx/Q, LI
M31 | M66 | M72 | M79 | M106 - MTA LIRR Train Schedules
- MTA NYC Trip Planner
- MTA L.I. Nassau Co. Bus System
- Suffolk Transit Bus System Map
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Queens County Bus Routes:
• Woodside—Rockaway Park Ltd.
Q53: [TT] [Dir]
Nassau County Bus Routes: -
Suffolk County Bus Routes:
• E. Hampton—Orient Pt
S92: [Path] [TT] [Dir] [1]
• Southhampton—Sag Harbor
10A: [Path] [TT] [Dir]
• Bridgehampton—Springs
10B: [Path] [TT] [Dir]
• E. Hampton—Montauk
10C: [Path] [TT] [Dir]
• Center Moriches—Riverhead (Suffolk Co.)
S90: [Path] [TT] [Dir]
• Hampton Bays—E. Quogue
10D: [TT] [Dir]
• Port Jefferson—Middle Island
5A: [TT] [Dir]
• Shirley—Stony Brook Railroad
S71: [TT] [Dir]
• E. Northport—Riverhead C.C.
S58: [TT] [Dir]
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• Mineola—Manorhaven
N23: [Path] [TT] [Dir]
search terms
- Fujinon 14x40 Techno-Stabi [43⇑]
• Gary Seronik review
• Ken Rockwell review
• Cloudy Nights: Canon vs Fuji - Zeiss 20x60 Classic I.S. [50⇑]
• Cloudy Nights: Zeiss 20x60
• Birdforum > Binoculars > Zeiss - digiscoping | FZ-30 [123⇑]
- digital | bat detector [452⇓]
- Hitchcock | Top 100 [447⇓]
- Krider's Red-tailed Hawk [304⇓]
- Peregrine | nests | NYC [886⇑]
- raptor | nest cams [349⇑] Updated 28 Apr 2008 11:20pm EST
nest cams
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Highlighted Webcams:
- 55 Water St. Falcons (NY)
- Columbus Ohio Peregrine Nest
nest | ledge | blog | weather - Chimney Swift TowerCam (NY)
Spring ‘08 map | host blog - Rochchester NY/Kodak PFCam
main camera | blog | weather - Kodak Archive Viewer
- Syracuse PFCam (NY)
Int. Exp. | Java | weather - Derby Cathedral PFCam (UK)
left camera | right camera | blog - Barn Owl Cam (CA)
- Amer. Elec. Power PFCam (US)
- Buffalo Audubon PFCam (NY)
- C.M.N.H. — PFCam (OH)
- Chris' ESO Nest Cam (TX)
- Dayton PFCam (OH)
- Dunn Mem. Bridge PFCam (NY)
- Etobicoke Nest Webcam (CA)
- Hamilton Comm. PF Proj. (CA)
- Jersey City PFCam [Home] (NJ)
- Minnesota Power PFCam
- Rachel Carson Bldng PFCam (PA)
- Xcel Energy PFCams (4) (US)
- River Watch PFCam (ND)
- Tacoma PFCam (WA)
- W. Penn. Conservancy PFCam
- Froona's Blog (NL)
- State Road Elementary Library — Peregrine Falcons (NY)
Up & running for 2008:
Not active (22-Apr-2008):
2-letter postal code used for the U.S. (MO = Missouri) & for countries (NL = Netherlands).
updates / new links
- Birding Sites (1 new)
14-Jun Breeding Bird Atlas: NYS (DEC)
— Go to → left sidebar - Birding Blogs: Global (1 new)
12-Jun The Urban Birder (UK)
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Followers
astronomy/science blogs
- Belt of Venus (Ariz.)
- Clear Skies on Demand (DE)
- Dirty Skies (Fla.)
- Megan's Blog (UK)
- The Planetary Society (US)
- Stuart's ‘Astronomy Blog’ (UK)
- Tom's Astronomy Blog (Vt.)
- Top of the Lawn (N.Y.C.)
Standard abbr. used for the U.S. (Del. = Delaware). 2-letter postal codes used for countries (DE = Germany).
astronomy links
- AAVSO: CompDB Project
- AAVSO: Nova Search Prog.
- ADS Abstract Service
- The Astronomer Online
- Astronomy Day Handbook (S&T)
- Bortle Dark-Sky Scale
- Catalog & Atlas of Cataclysmic Variables
- Clear Sky Clock - NYC
- Cloudy Nights: reviews
- Digiscoping: Lumix FZ30
- GCVS Query Form
- NASA Orbit Diagrams
- Planetarium for the Palm
- PleiadAtlas
- SIMBAD: Query by id., coordinate or ref. code
- Sky&Tel: Blogs/Podcasts
equipment
- Televue: TV-76 Refractor
- Televue Eyepieces:
• Nagler Type IV (14 & 22mm)
• Radian (6, 8 & 10mm)
• Zoom 8-24mm
• Plossl (20 & 55mm) - William Optics:
• 2 inch 45° Erecting Prism
• Digital Camera Adapter Lens — DCL-52 (75mm) - Swarovski Optik: 8.5×42 EL-Series Binoculars
- Fujinon Binoculars:
• 7x50 FMT-SX
• 10x70 FMT-SX - Gitzo:
• G1348 MK2 Mountaineer Interpro Studex Tripod [B&H]
• G2380 Video Fluid Head [B&H] - Tamrac: Big Wheels Rolling Backpack — Model 698
- Panasonic Lumix DMC-FZ30 [dpreview.com]
- Observing Chair: BeerChair
- 43°S Astro: Solar Filter