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On 22 December a birder named David Rankin was hiking in the Catskill mountains of upstate New York when a fellow hiker asked him what the bird that just flew off the trail was. Fortunately David had a camera because it seems unlikely that anyone would have believed his report of a Gray-crowned Rosy-Finch, a [...]

This past weekend was a blur of activity that has left me exhausted.  But was it ever worth it!  One of the best activities of the weekend was loading up the rented caravan with Daisy’s family on Saturday and driving upstate to visit my family.  As is somewhat of a tradition in my family we [...]

This past Monday I burned one of my many vacation days in order to extend my stay upstate long enough for me to hike up a mountain.  Like last year’s epic adventure up Wakely Mountain with Mike, Will and Patrick, this hike’s main goal was to track down a Bicknell’s Thrush, the seldom-seen bird that [...]