Great South Bay Audubon Nature Walk 05/21/2024

 Great South Bay Audubon 05/21/2024

Our walk today was at the Oceanside Marine Nature Study Area. The MNSA is run by the Town of Hempstead. It is a wetland area on the south shore of Nassau County. Thera are boardwalks throught the marshland. We had 16 people show up and the weather was perfect.

We had really good looks at some of the spring visitors and a few of the regular water birds that are seen there. We saw over 24 species of birds with good looks at most of them. One bird we can count on to see there regularly is the Yellow-crowned Night Herom.

They have put up Purple Martin Houses and have been successful in attracting them.

We had good looks at a very elusive bird, the Clapper Rail  It is a unique facility that allows up close looks at wetland birds and is always worth a visit.

Great South Bay Audubon Nature Walk 04/30/2024

 Our walk this Tuesday 04/30/2024 was at the Sisters of St. Joseph Campus in Brentwood. Fifteen folks showed participated as we walked the grounds of the facility. The campus is very environment friendly. They have waste water reclamation and solar arrays. The farm on the property is all organic, and they have planted native trees through out the property. We had 24 species of birds, we saw Goldfinches, woodpeckers, and some yellow rumped warblers. 

The highlight was as we were finishing the walk, we heard a group of crows squawking and flying into a stand of pine trees. They were mobbing an unseen threat. Eventually a great horned owl flew out of the pines and away from the crows flying right in front of the group. A great finish to a nice spring walk