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Monday morning, after driving Daisy to the Amtrak station to catch the train back to the city I decided to take a walk around my neighborhood looking for birds.  Surprisingly, this is something I had never done before.  I’ve walked around my neighborhood and I’ve looked for birds but somehow had never combined the two.  [...]

In all the fuss and frenzy of trying to do a Big Year in New York I’ve been all over the state but when I get some time during the week I get out to the local patches pretty often too. After all, regardless of rarities, it is the local locations in which I have [...]

When I got home from work today I realized that I needed to brush my cats, especially B.B., the long-haired one.  The male Northern Cardinal who has been ruling my balcony was not pleased with the disruption to his feeding schedule and let me know it by perching in the budding maple tree that has [...]

There are many routes to take from the southern end of Albany to the western part of Saugerties. The fastest is straight down the New York State Thruway to Route 32 to Route 212. But the best birds you’ll see taking that route are Turkey Vultures, Red-tailed Hawks and American Crows unless you get lucky. [...]