Mokka mit Schlag » 2006 » October

Blue Grosbeaks are regular accidentals in New York. Usually they show up on Staten Island or along the coast at Fort Tilden or Jones Beach. I’d avoided chasing any of several that had showed up earlier this year, but the recent sighting in Central Park, where they’re much less common, was too tempting to resist. Starr Saphir first found the bird on Saturday morning. It has hung around since then, and was reported again this morning at 9:30 A.M. I’d considered heading out early to try for the bird, but I had a noon lunch meeting in town, and I didn’t want to show up all sweaty from the park, so I took a chance that the bird would still be there in the afternoon. It paid off.

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Orono Bog, Maine, June, 2006

Prospect Park, 2006-08-15
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Cheesequake State Park, New Jersey, 2006-08-15

I’ve managed to get the full text feeds going again. However the paragraph breaks and some other markup is getting lost. More work is needed. I’ve also managed to put one Google ad back on the site without obviously breaking Safari like the old ads did. Still, for the time being most longer articles can be more easily read in a browser on the site than in your feed reader.

Update: The full text feeds should now be fully functional with all markup intact. Holler if you notice any problems. I still need to check the category specific feeds and the comment feeds.

Caenurgina erechtea, Floyd Bennett field, 2006-10-01

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