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Upland Sandpiper in Ames, NY.
There is something perverse about awakening before dawn to drive for almost an hour, sit on a road next to a specific field, and get excited about hearing a faint “tdilsk” sound. But I did, I was, and I still am.
That is because the “tdilsk” was the call of […]

Fifty signals a golden anniversary, so for the banner 50th edition of I and the Bird, we’ve got ourselves a solid-gold host. Bora aka Coturnix, the man who identifies himself with Old World quail, is well-placed among the science blogerati. He has founded, hosted, participated in, and promoted metric tons of blog carnivals at […]

After the Century Run Will posted our results to the local listserve and we eagerly awaited other teams’ results. There was this impressive count from Saratoga Spa State Park, and this one from Vischer Ferry. The Vischer Ferry report was very interesting as the group there spotted some birds that we missed in […]

Just like Paula alerting me to the baby robins at her parents’, which have fledged, another coworker, Andrea, alerted me to a Killdeer nest at her sister and brother-in-law’s place in Malta, NY.  She actually called me last night to find out what kind of bird it was and to find out what they should do as […]

Ah rose, the color of swanky gardens and rampant optimism. Rose by any other name also appears prominently in the plumage of some very perky birds. Rosy, a proper adjectival form of the word, describes a selection of finches from the genus Leucosticte. Of the four rosy finches, lovely earth-toned birds anointed with stark pink […]

 
I found this Northern Spring Peeper in my parents’ back yard a week or so ago.  The cone it is sitting next to is a hemlock cone, which shows how tiny a creature it is.  After a couple of pics (including some on my Mom’s wrist while my nephew admired it) I moved it to the edge of […]

Ringwood State Park in northern New Jersey is about as close as you can get to New York and not cross the border. A Saturday afternoon there with Daisy and her family was a stomach-stuffing experience of monumental proportions. We had a good time and enjoyed the outdoors, the company, and did I […]

Gulls… we birders can’t live with them and we can’t live without them. The gregarious, opportunistic, adaptable avians of the family Laridae are never hard to find, no matter how far you are from an ocean, but can prove nigh impossible to identify definitively. The trouble with gulls, at least from a birding perspective (picnickers […]

On Friday I expended another of my precious days off from work to get a jump-start on the Memorial Day weekend. My friend Tom, just back from surveyor school, and I had planned to hit up the the Adirondacks in an attempt at some of the northern specialties but the warm weather brings out […]

so what are you waiting for? Be a part of this historic edition by just writing about what you’ve been doing anyway… looking at birds! Send your link and summary to me or Bora (Coturnix AT gmail DOT com) of A Blog Around the Clock by May 29 for inclusion in the golden May 31 […]