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Just Saturday, I was bemoaning the apparent end of the migratory season. The impression gleaned from a couple of hours at Tibbetts Brook Park was confirmed at Riverdale Park. The torrent of spring migrants passing through NYC has been reduced to a trickle or, at best, some intermittent spurts. But a Core Team excursion on [...]

Happy Memorial Day weekend! If you live in North America and work in an industry that allows for such an indulgence, you’re probably in the midst of a fabulous extended weekend. Rest assured, I am! I’ve recently revised my Birds page, the resource any visitor to 10,000 Birds should consult if looking for information on [...]

In the last post our tenacious Century Run team had just left Cohoes for Vischer Ferry in Saratoga County, our fourth county of the day, and the rain had started coming down hard. The drive along Cohoes-Crescent Road and then River Road was without any new birds and our mood was falling faster than [...]

Swamp Sparrow Melospiza georgiana
New York and California
The Swamp Sparrow breeds from eastern Yukon and British Columbia eastward to Labrador, southward to eastern Nebraska to coastal Maryland and winters from southern New England to Florida, and from the southern Great Lakes region through Texas into much of the Mexican interior.
As its name makes clear it’s [...]

At a press conference today an unidentified sparrow pooped on the warmonger in the White House.  You can watch a video of him trying to wipe it off here.
At least something in Washington is speaking for the American people.  And my favorite comment on the video?  “If only elephants could fly.”

When we left off our exhausted team, having birded for over 13 straight hours already, was headed north from Coxsackie with a little over 100 species for the day. A quick stop at the Dunn Memorial Bridge in our third county of the day, Rennselaer County, to pick up the nesting Peregrine Falcons was [...]

The promise of spring migration lies in both potential and certitude. As we welcome back favorite fair-weather friends arriving with clockwork precision, we also hold out hope for the surprises that invariably come to the vigilant. Here are a few of my observations from a week of very limited bird watching:

Cuckoos have always seemed exotic [...]

The striking beetle above was the coolest thing I saw in my stroll around Five Rivers EEC this evening. I have no idea what it is. I also spent some time near blooming apple trees hoping to get pictures of other cool bugs but had no luck (I have been carrying my macro [...]

At the end of part 2 of the Century Run Saga it was a half an hour shy of noon and Will, Danika, Chad and I were descending from the wilds of western Albany County just a bit shy of 100 species for the day (part 1 is here).
Our next destinations were two reservoirs: Basic [...]

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