Date: 4/6/25 5:56 pm From: Naomi Lloyd via groups.io <naomi_kestrel...> Subject: [hmbirds] Upcoming field trips: 4/10, 4/12, 4/13
Spring is (more or less) here and birds are on the move! Join us as the field trip season kicks into gear!
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Five Rivers Woodcock Watching
When: 10 Apr 2025, 7:00 PM
Location: Five Rivers EEC
Coordinator: Drew Hopkins
A short talk about the wondrous bird and its virtually unique adaptations, followed by a walk to see if we can observe one in the field. Meet inside the visitor center at 7:00 p.m.
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Corning Riverfront Park/NYS Museum Ornithology Collection
When: 12 Apr 2025, 8:30 AM
Location: Corning Riverfront Park
Coordinators: Tristan Lowery 646-323-8914 <tristanlowery...> and Jeremy Kirchman <jeremykirchman...>
We’ll bird the Corning Riverfront Park before heading over to the New York State Museum for a special behind-the-scenes tour of its ornithological collections, given by the Museum’s Curator of Birds, Dr. Jeremy Kirchman.
Albany’s Corning Riverfront Park is a city-owned 15-acre urban waterfront property along the Hudson River that provides the best public access to the Hudson River in downtown Albany. In late March, dedicated river watching can reveal occasional rewards. In recent years, several species of diving ducks, grebes, all three North American mergansers, and returning Double-crested Cormorants have been recorded there as early spring migrants. The river can also attract concentrations of gulls, and wintering Bald Eagles and a pair of Peregrine Falcons that nest at the nearby Dunn Memorial Bridge are also seen often. The Hudson is easily viewed from the park’s easy and level walking paths, and we can also check the brushy habitat around the riverside pond for land birds.
After birding the riverfront, we’ll decamp to the New York State Museum for a behind-the- scenes tour. Parking is free on weekends in the visitors’ lot west of the NYSM on Madison Avenue. The tour will begin when all are reassembled in the NYSM lobby, and will last about one hour.
Meet at the Corning Riverfront Park parking area just south of the Livingston Avenue railroad bridge along Quay St in Albany at 8:30 a.m. RESERVATIONS REQUIRED. Contact the coordinator no later than April 5 to sign up. There is a limit of 15 people, with preference given to HMBC members. The riverfront walk is open to all.
Coordinator: David Massa <davidpmassa...> 518-369-9100
On this trip along the Mohawk River and its backwaters, we will look for waterfowl and early migrants. Our walk will take us west past the river's edges and Niska Isle, checking inlets and flooded fields.
Meet at 8:00 a.m. at Lions Park in Niskayuna, located on Rosendale Rd near the intersection with Niskayuna Rd.
