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I don’t know what is wrong with me. After a wonderful day last Saturday doing a Big Day in Queens I decided to do another Big Day upstate this past Saturday with Will from The Nightjar. The last two years when Will and I have done the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club’s Century Run we [...]

On Saturday, September 1, 2007, Will and I participated in the Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club’s first Fall Century Run. Was the best part of the day watching a flushed American Bittern fly over a marsh? Or was it when a flock of noisy Blue Jays went in a screaming chase after a Great Horned [...]

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 [...]

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 only picture you get today…sometimes just looking at the birds is better than trying to photograph them
Will Raup and I decided we would spend all of Cinco de Mayo scouting for the Hudson Mohawk Bird Club’s Century Run that will be on May 19th. We birded ourselves to exhaustion and was it ever [...]