Fall Birding with FBC NYC at Shirley Chisholm State Park

Join FBC NYC at Shirley Chisholm State Park in Brooklyn for some late fall grassland and bay birding! Late fall is an incredible time of transition in New York City as the final summer visitors say goodbye and our winter resident birds arrive, and the shoreline of Jamaica Bay is an excellent place to witness the action. There’s no guarantee of what we might see, but hopefully we’ll get to appreciate some sparrows, some grassland-loving raptors like Northern Harrier and American Kestrel, and a whole mixture of ducks, geese, and gulls that live on or near the water. If we’re lucky maybe we’ll even see a Purple Sandpiper, a shorebird species that really only spends time in NYC in winter. 

When: Saturday November 23, 9am to 11am

Where: Shirley Chisholm State Park (exact meeting place to follow)

Accessibility: All of the trails we would use are paved or hard-packed earth and gravel. Some of the trails in the park have steep sections but we generally avoid those in favor of flat trails or those with very shallow inclines. Port-a-potties available, with at least one cabin being ADA compliant.

We have a limited number of binoculars available to borrow. Please let us know beforehand if you need to borrow a pair. Questions? Drop us a line at [email protected]

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