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Fall 2020 Brooklyn Bird Club’S the Clapper Rail Fall 2020 Inside This Issue Fall 2020 Brooklyn Bird Club’s The Clapper Rail Fall 2020 Inside This Issue 38 A Rescue in Green- Wood Cemetery 41 28 Atlas Breeding Bird 4 Photo Gallery: Survey Pandemic Birders: 15 Irruption 2020 by Ryan They’re Here to Stay Hipster Hawks: Mandelbaum McCarren Park’s Nesting Red-Tails 43 32 Represent! #1: It’s a 10 Bird Dogwood Delights: A Poetry: The Morning Fall Birdathon Report 20 News Sparks! 44 33 Brooklyn Bird Club 12 Upcoming Events Letter from the Diversity in Birding: An 23 Interview with Michael President A Banner Day at Cape Yuan May 13 36 Photo Gallery: Ronnie 26 Photo Gallery: Charles Almonte Birding With Kestrel Tang Cover: Pine Siskins in Green-Wood Cemetery. Photo by Ryan Mandelbaum. Next Page: American Kestrel. Photo by Mike Elfassy. 2 The Clapper Rail Fall 2020 Editor’s Note The tradition and history of the Brooklyn Bird Club is long and storied, and one of the things I’ve loved the most about this community is the transmitting of that generational knowledge: local birding lore passed down by senior birders to newer ones, an act that keeps the club and our beloved greenspaces looked after and thriving. That tradition will continue with the 121st Christmas Bird Count this Saturday, December 19. It’s an event whose importance and fun was conveyed to me as a new birder in 2016, and one which I’m sure many others are learning now. Because as Linda Ewing writes in our lead story, this covid-19 pandemic has brought a host of new birders into our community. Perhaps it’s one of the slimmest of silver linings during this terrible time, that watching birds could bring a measure of peace and happiness. It’s also meant that the membership roll of the Brooklyn Bird Club, celebrating its 112th birthday, has never been longer. I hope that the same bonds of mentorship and camaraderie that pulled me in four years ago will do the same for this new class. – Ryan Goldberg The Brooklyn Bird Club President: Dennis Hrehowsik http://www.brooklynbirdclub.org The Clapper Rail Editor: Ryan Goldberg Deputy Editor: Janet Schumacher Art & Design: Tina Alleva, Angie Co 3 The Clapper Rail Fall 2020 Pandemic Birders: They’re Here to Stay By Linda Ewing Flynn Murray’s spark bird was a Green Heron this July in Prospect Park. 4 The Clapper Rail Fall 2020 ccording to the press, birding is having a collective portrait. It’s incomplete and impressionistic, pandemic moment. “Birdwatching takes flight of course, but nonetheless suggestive. For these new A amid coronavirus outbreak as Americans head birders, birding is a source of comfort and connection, back outdoors,” the Los Angeles Times declared at the an infusion of much-needed normalcy, and an antidote beginning of May. “The Birds Are Not on Lockdown, to boredom – often, all those things at once. and More People Are Watching Them,” the New York “It makes me feel that I’m not in a pandemic,” was Times chimed in. In August, the Washington Post the way one of them summed it up. Magazine offered to tell its readers everything they Here are their stories. needed to know “to tune in to the feathered soap opera outside your window.” The birding boom has even Flynn Murray and Ronnie Almonte inspired a bit of a birding backlash. “UFO Spotting Has Replaced Bird Watching as Pandemic Obsession,” Pandemic birders include people like Windsor the Wall Street Journal harumphed in September. Terrace residents Flynn Murray and Ronnie Almonte, For longtime Brooklyn birders, it’s all a bit who have found solace in birding. Both consider it a bewildering. “It used to be that when I saw someone form of “active noticing,” offering many of the same with binoculars in the park it was always someone benefits as meditation. Almonte lost his grandfather I knew,” one commented. “Now I don’t recognize to the virus in April, one of several painful losses anyone.” This was not offered as a complaint, but in a he experienced last spring. As a high school science tone of wonder and puzzlement. teacher and union activist, he has witnessed firsthand So who are these pandemic birders? Conversations the impact of the pandemic on his mostly Black and with half a dozen new birders in a carefully selected brown students and their families, and believes that random sample (read: binocular-toting strangers I resource disparities continue to put public school kids approached in Prospect and Green-Wood) offer a and staff at risk. Murray, deeply involved in organizing Ronnie Almonte, a high school science teacher and union activist, started a bird club at his school. 5 The Clapper Rail Fall 2020 for social and economic justice, remarks that “the and others, the bird was rescued and on its way to the more organizing I do, the more I bird.” The quiet Wild Bird Fund. watchfulness of seeking and observing birds keeps This wasn’t the first time Truong had helped a bird them relaxed and grounded, better able to confront the caught in discarded fishing line. In the spring, while enormity of the issues that motivate their activism. staying with her sister in North Carolina, she found a The couple share a longstanding love of nature. For Barred Owl with line wrapped around its wing. She Murray, growing up in New Mexico, that love mostly was able to get it help – and then returned to the site took the form of fly fishing and rockhounding. Almonte, the next day to clean up fishing line and other debris. who grew up on Long Island, cherishes memories of The story of how Truong came to be rescuing owls going to the local park with his grandfather to feed the at her sister’s place is also the story of her introduction ducks (“I know, I know,” he interjects, “I’d never do to birding. In early March, with her job on hiatus and that now”). He had birded casually for much of his life her avocation, roller derby, canceled indefinitely, she but picked up the intensity this summer when Murray realized the things that had brought her to Brooklyn – armed with the new pair of binoculars he had given were about to go away, possibly for a lengthy period. her – began birding as well. Not wanting to be trapped alone in the city, she headed Murray can offer the exact date she became a for her sister’s. There, looking for safe, outdoor birder: July 12. That was the first time she headed to activities to do with her young niece and nephew, she Prospect Park with the sole intention of looking at settled on birding. birds. The first bird she encountered? A Green Heron, Nature exploration had not played a big role in by West Island across from the Vanderbilt entrance. Truong’s own childhood in northern Virginia. Her first From that moment, she was hooked. pair of binoculars, she confesses, was purchased as part Over the months that followed, Murray and of a Halloween costume – she dressed as one of the Almonte have racked up impressive life lists, including central characters from Moonrise Kingdom – and then a Connecticut Warbler (“I literally jumped for joy when I saw it,” says Murray), American Pipits, and Prospect Park’s recent Common Gallinule. They share a fondness for the Butterfly Meadow, which is where my interviews with them took place (with frequent interruptions to check out a Brown Thrasher, sort through warblers, or watch a hummingbird chase away a Blue-headed Vireo). While the bird that re-sparked Almonte’s interest in birding was an electric-blue Indigo Bunting, and Murray is smitten with warblers, both are looking forward to bundling up and heading for South Brooklyn’s beaches this winter to learn about ducks and gulls. Almonte’s renewed interest in birding has inspired him to share the joy of birds with the students he teaches. Armed with his principal’s approval and a donation of binoculars from Bird Collective, he’s starting a birding club at his school. Michele Truong In October, when Michele Truong found a Belted Kingfisher entangled in fishing line in Prospect Park’s Lullwater, she jumped into action. Truong had become a regular on Brooklyn Bird Club migration walks when they resumed in the fall, so her first thought was to call Tom Stephenson. After a few more calls by Stephenson Birds have changed the way Michele Truong looks at Brooklyn. 6 The Clapper Rail Fall 2020 misplaced. But in April, with a new pair of binoculars, alternative olive-harvesting methods. And while she a collection of field guides, and an 8-year-old and a sometimes wonders if birding is just a phase, hearing 10-year-old as her companions, she fell hard for birds. what birding has come to mean to her and how it’s Barred Owls nested by the pond near her sister’s home, changed her relationship to nature and the place she and she and her niece and nephew watched the owlets lives, it’s hard to escape the conclusion that she’s in it grow up. The first time she and her niece saw a male for the long haul. Scarlet Tanager, they were stunned by the brilliance of In fact, she’s already fantasizing about post- its plumage. pandemic birding trips: experiencing migration at Birds, Truong remarks, have given her indelible Cape May, traveling to Colombia, or just breaking in memories that evoke specific people, places and her new wading boots at Jamaica Bay. times; she will never look at a Scarlet Tanager without thinking of this pandemic spring, and of her niece.
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