CANOE: Beginner (all skill levels): Bird-Watching on Newtown Creek

Birding on Newtown Creek

• Skill level: Beginner (all skill levels) (see what this means here).
  
• Meet: 4:00 PM: Manhattan Avenue Street End Park
  
• Launch: 4:30
  
• Slack at 31st St.: N/A. High tide at 3:02, low tide 8:24
  
• Return: 7:00
  
• Release: 7:30
  
• Trip leaders: Michael / mr.haskell and Patterson / pbeckwith at the ol' gmail
  
• What to wear and bring

The first bird-watching trip of the 2019 season! And the first to launch from Manhattan Avenue Street End Park! (Map.)

A low-intensity paddle on Newtown Creek focusing on finding the birds! Binoculars will be provided, or bring your own.

On this first summer Friday, we'll head up the creek and see who has arrived. We'll look for black-crowned night heron, blue heron, cormorants, swans, and other local and migratory birds.

We might even take one of our brand-new 29' Langley canoes! See them in action here!

With the lowering tide, it could be a great chance to see shore birds. It's a perfect situation for our first birding trip of the season and a great welcome back to our programming.