I love birding Randall's Island (a small island East of Manhattan, south of the Bronx, and west of Queens) in the winter.  I generally don't see another birder when I visit, but today because of a Barnacle Goose found by Anya Auerbach, there were lots of birders.  I also had two Snow Buntings by the water's edge east of Field 31.  Both species were life birds for me, so today was a great day.  New York City has lots of great birds in January!

Snowy Owls continue in the area. This afternoon, I got to photograph one in the snow.  White on White, what a delight to photograph.

For some reason, Horned Larks are a species that has escaped my view until today.  A flock was on one of runways at Floyd Bennett Field this afternoon.

My New Year's resolution is to do a little more birding and a little less photography during the non-nesting/fledgling period for hawks. (Basically the months outside of April, May, June and July.)

So today, I just went for a long walk around Central Park today with my scope and took an occasional digiscoping picture.  My bird count 39 species.  The highlight was seeing two Baltimore Orioles.