One cool thought is thinking about the fall when much cooler northwest autumn winds whoosh thru and places like Cape May come to mind. This fall, one of my oldest birding friends Glen Davis will be leading a Brooklyn Bird Club weekend in mid-September. Glen started birding at age 8 and has been living in Cape May for 12 years now. I remembered the great old days when I was following this young kid --after pre dawn pickups at his Midwood home-- all over Prospect Park during spring migrations (we both set a personal best of 27 warbler species in one day including Lawrences and Golden-winged Warblers, many Hooded as well thanks to Glen's hearing), a good eye birder like me following a master ear birder at age 8 thru his teenage years before he left for college . Cape May weekends with Glen and my other oldest birding friend Paul Keim were a blast with the three of us: two very experienced birders with a sharp eared youngster going all out for those birds. Sort of like a motley crue....memories of those cool birding days kind of helps mentally to counter this yeech heat. Anyway, Glen ( and still a BBC member 30-ish emeritus :)> ) has been a winner of the Cape Island NJ World Series of Birding champ for many years with his team ( also a winner in 2010)
here's his picture, second from the right : http://tinyurl.com/32xvgtb
Cape May trip details
http://brooklynbirdclub.org/trips.htm#92
Stay cool....
---Kingsboider
