The View from Weesuck Creek

A bird and nature blog with regular posts describing the natural history of the land, wetlands and waters of a site on Weesuck Creek in East Quogue,NY.Wider excursions on LI and to other parts of the world are sometimes included.

Saturday, November 11, 2017

Corn Crake

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As most of you probably know, there was a Corn Crake somewhere on the Jones Beach strip of the barrier island this past week. Some of us wi...

Tuesday, October 31, 2017

a wind hurricane

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We didn't get a late-October Sandy-type hurricane this year but the past few days have been almost as dramatic. After a gorgeous blue-wh...

Saturday, October 28, 2017

another singer and a surprise warbler

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A little while ago, I wrote that Carolina Wrens were the last remaining singer from our woodland chorus. But now the wren has been joined by...

Friday, October 27, 2017

a creek-full, a tree-full

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Weesuck Creek was full of Forster's Terns this morning (I think that the Common Terns have long ago left for wherever it is that they go...

Thursday, October 26, 2017

an unexpected visitor and more color changes

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The warm, damp weather of the past few days has brought out an unexpected visitor: Eastern Box Turtle. In 'normal' years the Box Tur...

Wednesday, October 25, 2017

dodging the wind and rain

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High winds yesterday morning. Rain came later in the day. This is the kind of weather that big birds like: gulls, herons, the bigger woodpec...

Sunday, October 22, 2017

a quiet, meditative Sunday

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What a difference one day makes. Yesterday morning there were literally hundreds of Yellow-rumped Warblers coming in; today I saw perhaps fi...

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