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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 [...]

After a decent night’s sleep the intrepid gang of four awakened in the dark once again, hoping to top the previous day’s birding adventure. From Cranberry Lake, just across the road from our motel, came the haunting calls of Common Loons, amplified by the damp air. The sound was enough to send shivers [...]

When the alarm clock went off at 3:30 AM Sunday morning I never even heard it. Daisy did though, and awakened me, and our sleep-clogged bodies got ready for a full day’s birding in the Adirondacks without the help of our still-sleeping brains. We picked Will and Danika up and headed west on [...]