EARLY SPRING MIGRANTS AT JAMAICA BAY - Saturday, March 30, 10am-1pm
Guide: Don Riepe - With Gateway National Recreation Area, Nyc Audubon & Littoral Society
Meet at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center. Hike around the East and West Ponds and gardens to look for osprey, as well as returning ibis, egrets, oystercatchers, phoebes, and other migrants. To register, contact Don Riepe at 917-371-8577 or
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. Limited to 25. Free
SPRING MIGRATION WORKSHOP AT JAMAICA BAY - Sunday, April 28, 10am-1pm
Guides: Don Riepe, Tod Winston - With Gateway National Recreation Area, NYC Audubon & Littoral Society
Meet at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge Visitor Center for a slide presentation on spring migration followed by a hike around the ponds and uplands to look for spring migrants. To register, contact Don Riepe at 917-371-8577 or
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. Limited to 25. Free
STERLING FOREST WARBLERS, NY - Saturday, May 4, 9am-5pm
Guides: Don Riepe, Tod Winston
Explore the woodland and pond habitat of the 20,000-acre Sterling Forest preserve during peak spring migration. Look for nesting warblers (including golden-winged, cerulean, hooded, prairie, and blue-winged) as well as spring wildflowers, reptiles, and amphibians. Visit the rustic visitor center. Bring lunch, water, and binoculars. Transport by van or carpool. Limited to 16. $70. Call (212) 691-7483
RED KNOTS AND HORSESHOE CRABS AT JAMAICA BAY - Sunday, May 26, 9am-12pm
Guide: Don Riepe
With Gateway National Recreation Area & NYC Audubon
Meet at the Jamaica Bay NWR Visitor Center to see the annual mating ritual of the prehistoric horseshoe crab, along with red knots, sanderlings, and ruddy turnstones. Hike along the beach and marshland edges to see fiddler crabs, egrets, and other wildlife. Bring lunch and binoculars. To register, contact Don Riepe at 917-371-8577 or
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. Limited to 25. Free
MONTAUK SPRING WEEKEND, LI - Friday, June 7-Sunday, June 9
Guides: Don Riepe, Mickey Cohen, Mike Bottini. Spend an extended weekend at the eastern tip of Long Island during peak spring orchid and heather bloom. This trip includes double occupancy accommodations at the luxurious Manor House, five meals, five guided hikes, two evening programs, and a star watch, plus free pickup at the Montauk LIRR station. See nesting pine and prairie warblers, and visit a cranberry bog with flowering orchids and sundews. Easy hiking in woodlands and on the dunes, beach, and bluffs. For more information or to register, contact Don Riepe at 917-371-8577 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Limited to 60. $385 ($120 single supplement)- With NYC Audubon and NYC Sierra Club
JAMAICA BAY SUNSET ECOLOGY CRUISES- Saturday, May 25th & Sunday, June 23, 5-8pm.
Guides: Don Riepe, Mickey Cohen - With American Littoral Society and NYC Audubon
Meet at Pier 4 in Sheepshead Bay, Brooklyn. Enjoy a three-hour narrated cruise aboard the 100-foot boat “Golden Sunshine.” Visit backwater marshes near JFK Airport, and learn about the 13,000-acre Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge. See nesting peregrine falcons, ospreys, egrets, shorebirds, and waterfowl. Includes refreshments. To register, contact Don Riepe at 917-371-8577 or
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. Limited to 140. $55
HORSESHOE CRABS & TERRAPINS AT JAMAICA BAY - Saturday, June 29, 1pm-3pm
Guide: Don Riepe - With Gateway National Recreation Area and NYC Audubon . Meet at the the Jamaica Bay NWR Visitor Center for a hike around the West Pond to look for mating horseshoe crabs and shorebirds. We'll also look for diamondback terrapins coming ashore to lay their eggs. Bring boots and binoculars. To register, contact Don Riepe at 917-371-8577 or This e-mail address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it. . Limited to 25. Free
CAPE ANN WHALE WATCH, MA - Thursday, August 15–Sunday, August 18
Guides: Don Riepe, Mickey Cohen, With American Littoral Society and NYC Audubon
A fun-packed, nature-focused weekend in beautiful Cape Ann, Massachusetts. We hope to see pelagic species such as sooty and greater shearwater, Wilson’s storm petrel, and common eider—not to mention minke and humpback whales, basking shark, and family pods of dolphins. Includes three nights' stay in historic Gloucester, a half-day whale watch boat trip, an evening Essex River Cruise, easy canoeing on Ipswich River, birding at Parker River Wildlife Refuge, and guided hikes, plus a lobster dinner. To register, contact Don Riepe at 917-371-8577 or
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. Limited to 40. $395 ($180 single supplement)
