Posts Tagged With: birding

Zoom Yoga 5/20-5/25 & Nature in NYC

This week’s teaching schedule has a slight change – the Wednesday evening 60 min class will now take place at 8 am. Full schedule below.

Quite a few people have asked me for recommendations on where you can explore nature and wildlife in the 5 Boroughs, so I thought I’d leave a list here of some of the places I’ve been exploring. Unfortunately unless you have a car, some of these places are more challenging to get to during current times, but well worth exploring if you can. The list below is by borough, and is definitely not all-inclusive, just places I’ve enjoyed.

Brooklyn:

Marine Park Salt Marsh Trail

Gerritsen Beach

Plumb Beach (go during low tide)

North Forty Natural Area (Floyd Bennet Field is currently closed – but putting this here for when it reopens)

Shore Road Park/Bay Ridge Promenade

Prospect Park

Queens:

Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge

Forest Park

Manhattan:

The Ramble, Ravine, and North Woods in Central Park

Fort Tryon Park (one of my faves)

Staten Island:

The Greenbelt (High Rock Park and Latourette Park)

Scarlett Tanagers chillin’ at the Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge
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Zoom Yoga 5/6-5/11 & the Greenbelt of Staten Island

I’ve been trying to use my free time wisely – exploring nature right here in NYC and I’m in awe of what surrounds us.

Did you know there are 2800 acres of natural woodlands and creeks right in Staten Island (with the exception of Moses Mountain – which is man made, but still very cool!)? I have lived in NY my whole life and had no clue this was here! It’s called the Greenbelt, and it’s amazing! I felt like I was upstate yet was only 15 minutes from my apartment in Brooklyn! So crazy, and my new favorite spot! Before now SI was mostly just a way for me to get to the mainland US, and to occasionally attend a Passover Seder or SI Yankee game. Who knew!!

I imagine that this, along with the marshlands I’ve been exploring, is what most of NYC looked like before it was built up. It’s filled with wildlife – just yesterday I met a raccoon, chipmunks, squirrels (of course), turtles, a red bellied woodpecker, bluejays, gray catbirds, great egrets, and canadian geese. Oh, and chickens (!), but I think they belonged to someone. There are deer also, but I did not have the pleasure of seeing one. I can’t wait to get back!

Zoom teaching schedule and some photos from my outdoor (socially distanced and face masked responsibly) adventures.

See you on the Zoom mat!

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