NY Times
y JAMES BARRON
Published: January 25, 2010
Every other month for the last year, the parks department has led birders through Freshkills [a public dump site for NYC for 50 years]. This explains why Mr. Wollney, a public programs associate from the Staten Island Museum, was climbing a 150-foot mountain on Sunday morning, trailed by more than 20 others who had signed up for the tour...
Enter the bird-watchers, their high-powered binoculars and long-lens cameras around their necks, their illustrated reference guides in their pockets.
Every other month for the last year, the parks department has led birders through Freshkills. This explains why Mr. Wollney, a public programs associate from the Staten Island Museum, was climbing a 150-foot mountain on Sunday morning, trailed by more than 20 others who had signed up for the tour.
The mountain was once a garbage pile. Now it has been sealed off with a plastic membrane and covered with a special kind of grass. Maybe on a clear day a Burton Lane-Alan Jay Lerner song would come to mind. Sunday, with blustery winds and a spitting sky, was not that day.... (more)
www.nytimes.com/2010/01/26/nyregion/26bird.html
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