A bright, warm autumn day. I set out to see what might be of interest at Jamaica Bay, and the delight of the day was the turning foliage. I don’t often contemplate the variety of plants at the refuge, but on this day, each one was a different color, and a walk down the path to the West Pond or to the East Pond via Big John’s Pond, was exhilarating. My bird list was not long. The best was a young Cooper’s Hawk who had taken up a post near the blind by the Visitors Center an

I took a van of explorers from NYC Audubon out to Brooklyn and Queens for a morning at historic Cemetery of the Evergreens, followed by a stroll around Ridgewood Reservoir. We were met at the Cemetery by historian Danny Daddario whose knowledge of the place and the people buried there is so prodigious and so fluently delivered, that had we seen no birds, we would have had a very enjoyable day. As it was, we had some late warblers, some early sparrows, and great looks at the