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Birding the Shawangunk Grasslands
By Corey • July 24, 2009 • 7 commentsAs I already said in my previous post that featured a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, this past weekend my parents and I explored the Shawangunk Grasslands, a National Wildlife Refuge in southern Ulster County in the Hudson Valley. The grasslands used to be an airport but when the airport was no longer needed it made sense, [...]
Field Birds
By Corey • May 31, 2007 • 6 commentsThere is something perverse about awakening before dawn to drive for almost an hour, sit on a road next to a specific field, and get excited about hearing a faint “tdilsk” sound. But I did, I was, and I still am. That is because the “tdilsk” was the call of a Henslow’s Sparrow, a bird [...]
