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.