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When a Northern Hawk Owl, normally a denizen of the far white north, was reported in Peru, New York, as a result of local birders combing the area for the Plattsburgh Christmas Bird Count I really wanted to go see it.  When Jeff Nadler posted his amazing pictures of the bird on his website I [...]

I was in Plattsburgh, NY, for work, minding my own business and walking across SUNY-Plattsburgh’s campus. Bird calls, familiar bird calls: Pine Grosbeaks. Of course, I had my camera with me, as they had recently been reported there on a local listserv and, hey, you have to be prepared to see Pine Grosbeaks! messy eater [...]

Up at 4. On the road by 4:45. Dark Adirondacks, cold, long, lonely highway. Dawn. Trees, rock, snow. Exit 39, left on 9, heading north. Geese up and flying west, Snow Geese, several small flocks. Look for left turn, Spellman Road, there, driving west, geese are south. Another turn, south, Moffit Road. Geese in field. [...]

On Tuesday, Election Day here in the United States, Will and I put off our civic duty and headed north for some serious birding. We had a plan that would take us from Albany north and a bit west to the Central Adirondacks in search of boreal woodpeckers and then north and east across the [...]

No that’s not some kind of absurd typo up there. Sunday was all about the search for the Tufted Duck at Ausable Point State Park on Lake Champlain (TUDU is the bird banding code for Tufted Duck). The Tufted Duck is a Eurasian species which occasionally pops up in North America. It is very like [...]