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Jan.12 2008 Jamaica Bay(9)--第二个人的装备，谁能告诉我这两个lens是多少的？

Jan.12 2008 Jamaica Bay(8)  第二个人。

Jan.12 2008 Jamaica Bay(7)--这位就是那个一手D3一手Mark3的人之一。

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在Jamaica Bay information center买了一本书：The New York City Audubon Society Guide to Finding Birds in the Metropolitan Area,书中夹了一张纸，内容如下：

PUBLIC LIVES; Bird Lover Takes Urban Watchers Under Her Wing

By JOHN KIFNER
Published: May 17, 2001

BEYOND pigeons.

That's how Marcia T. Fowle would like New Yorkers to think about birds.

She has a point. You may not be aware, fellow pigeon-dodger, that of the roughly 600 species of birds native to the United States, more than half -- about 355 -- spend at least part of the year in New York City, as either migrants, nesters or full-time residents. Or that colonies of egrets, ibises and herons crowd the islets by Rikers Island. Or that woodcock in the Bronx's Pelham Bay Park leap in mating rituals unfazed by barrages of gunfire from the nearby police range at Rodman's Neck.

The aptly named Ms. Fowle knows all this, and a lot more, because she is the co-author of the New York Audubon Society Guide to Finding Birds in the Metropolitan Area, published this week by Cornell University Press, as well as the former executive director and incoming president of the society's 10,000-member New York City chapter. ''Of our bird world, half of them pass through here. I can't imagine another city that has all this,'' she said, leading the way into the Ramble in Central Park, one of the city's premier birding spots (***, the book's highest rating for both spring and fall migrations).

''Actually, birding is way more satisfactory in New York City than it is in the country,'' Ms. Fowle said, settling onto a bench by Azalea Pond, explaining that in the country birds can fly off into forests and thus avoid being watched. ''Just sitting here, we will see many more species than hours walking in the country. Also, other birders come by and tell you where things are.''

Ms. Fowle, 65, is charmingly modest about her own birding prowess, attributing much of the expertise in the book to her co-author, Paul Kerlinger, a specialist in bird migration and to ''47 ardent birders'' who contributed or checked entries. Indeed, she was accompanied by Dick Gershon, a birder so devoted that his calling card carries a portrait of an owl. ''That's a red-eyed vireo singing, now a tanager,'' Mr. Gershon said, cocking an ear. The most proficient bird watchers are actually better bird listeners.

Mid-May is the height of spring migration, and there is a whole birding subculture in the city, with hundreds of people draped in field glasses roaming the Ramble's paths in the early morning, sizing each other up by the relative immensity of their binoculars. Mr. Gershon wears his on an elastic harness to avoid ''warbler neck,'' caused by the pressure of a leather strap and peering up into trees.

HERE come groups from the Nature Conservatory and the Museum of Natural History, and 40 birders from rustic Dutchess County. Here is Deborah Allen of the Linnean Society, with a Nikon on a tripod and a lens not much longer than a howitzer. There is Harry Maas, a lawyer once mesmerized during an important meeting by a northern parula warbler outside a Midtown office window. And Sarah Elliott, leading a group of ladies whose plumage suggests their habitat is the Upper East side. At the Loeb boathouse, there is a birding log, with Tom Fiore noting the other day ''at least 12 warbler species between West 100th Street and West 83rd Street.'' And there is Larry, a red-winged blackbird who has become so habituated to the birders that he has a regular position on a fence, screeching for handouts.

The Ramble is host to other subcultures as well, a situation the book addresses with forthright delicacy. ''Take caution,'' it advises primly, ''not only for your safety, but your sense of decorum. Public displays of intimate behavior may be encountered.''

Although a lifelong outdoorswoman -- she met her husband, Bruce F. Fowle, an architect, on a ski trip -- Ms. Fowle came to birding in a roundabout fashion. A 1957 Brown graduate, she raised three daughters before becoming involved in what she recalls as ''a fun battle'' against a building in her Park Avenue neighborhood that was supposed to rise 12 stories above the zoning limit. Excess height vanquished, she went back to school -- Hunter College -- for a master's in urban planning, which led to a job as the first paid director if the local Audubon chapter from 1993 to 1998.

''Our book covers places people don't think of as birding places,'' said Ms. Fowle, who once endured a subway, ferry and bus trip of more than two hours to Great Kills Park in Staten Island to test public transportation, resulting in a cautionary note.

New York owes its birding pre-eminence to the variety of topography and its location along what has been for tens of thousands of years a main North-South migration route. This has, however, been a mixed blessing for birds, thousands of which blunder into tall buildings each year. ''The Twin Towers are known as a death trap,'' she said with a small shudder, referring to the World Trade Center, which has recently dimmed its lights and put up netting to reduce avian carnage.

At least 27 species breezed by over a couple of hours, Mr. Gershon said later, reeling off a list that included the ruby-crowned kinglet, wood thrush, rose-breasted grosbeak, cardinal, Baltimore oriole, northern waterthrush, and a whole passel of warblers, including American Redstart, black and white, chestnut-sided, bay-breasted and magnolia, along with the common grackle.

''Ah, the grackle, another underappreciated bird,'' Ms. Fowle said. ''In the sunlight, he's splendid.''

这里还有她写的信。

Birds in the Light

Published: April 5, 2002

To the Editor:

Re ''A Survey Reveals Sentiment for Keeping Shafts of Light'' (news article, March 29): The New York City Audubon Society supports the temporary memorial, but not its extension past April 13.

Since migrating birds are confounded by artificial light, society members watch the light beams from remote computers and survey the site each night. So far, only a few disoriented birds have been seen. But peak spring migration starts at the end of April. Our research shows that in certain weather conditions there could be numerous bird casualties.

Migration is a perilous journey. We do not wish to increase the hazards for these ''gatherings of angels.''

MARCIA T. FOWLE
President
New York City Audubon Society
New York, March 29, 2002

[zixian 编辑于 2008-01-14 04:40]

DNA&RNA兄:
这不,给您这么一说,俺多没面子啊,要是估计换转zixian兄在FL的话,估计即使有9天的行程会打个电话

另外,感觉zixian兄真的很扭捏,我在无忌从没有遇到过滴.
由于新规定,我最近不得不要上纽约一次换护照,看有那位无忌的弟兄也是在纽约的一起出来聚聚好喔,欢迎zixian随行携带保镖

你看你。。。哎呀。。。哈。。。你跟着我们去不就好啦。。。今天我Prospect Park鹰拍到了，雪鹅Jamaica Bay也拍到了，我们早上去prospect park, 下午3点半去到jamica bay，好多好多雪鹅。。。。沿途一个D2x,一个D200,一个D300，一个1D MIII,三只六百，一只三百，一只200-500,全部以MG42机枪秒射的响声。。。。把雪鹅打了一个都不剩。。。图片等下再发，今天扛着30磅走了一天的路，早上7点到晚上5点。。。累得不行了。。。

没有指标了，今天的Jamaica Bay已经没有了Snow Goose的踪影，看来天太暖了。本是找鹰的，但没见影儿，问information center的人，说鹰只是路过没有nest, 扫兴。不过见到三个打鸟的，一人俩炮，一是d3, 一是mark3，聊了两句，(明天上他们的照片，)没趣走了......之后要看场电影，星期日晚上再开机了。

[zixian 编辑于 2008-01-13 02:46]

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德国，我现在对Prospect Park暂没兴趣，非常抱歉。

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f801兄，

在FL时还计划着给你个电话，出来玩玩。但行程太紧，只好作罢。10天的计划，我老是算成11天，这也没个日期变更线啊。

估计是不来的了

那来不来呀？

去过，但那时还没相机。

你们都有600呀，汗颜！

这个星期才去啊。。。还没到呢。。Prospect Park你去过没有，那里有鹰。。。。

期待有一天我真能出机票让你飞过来。。。顺道带上你的600mm super VR IV N II。。。哈。。。

德国，Marine Park有没有去？期待你更多的片子。

你出机票，我立马飞来。