Staten Island Advance: A mile off Staten Island's East Shore, Hoffman Island is for the birds
My attention had been up in the trees counting cormorant nests and watching jumpy parent birds coming and going. Grubel, a City University of New York graduate student, and I were part of a small group participating in a Harbor Herons Survey on Hoffman Island, located about a mile off of South Beach.
A gull chick takes a quizzical look at the human visitors on Hoffman Island. Members of a NYC Audubon team were on the restricted island to count the gull nests and other birds.
Photo Credit: Colin Grubel
From Staten Island Advance: "Stand still," said Colin Grubel from behind me before he bent down and scooped up a gull chick at my feet.
Posted by WILDNEWJERSEY at 7/9/2011 10:00 AM 
Categories: Birds
Tags: staten island hoffman island birds gulls egrets heron
Categories: Birds
Tags: staten island hoffman island birds gulls egrets heron
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