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Eastern Screech-Owls sleep all day. That makes why this bird had its head poking out of its box when we drove by it in Vosburgh Marsh in Greene County, New York, a good question. Wouldn’t you be grumpy if a carload of birders pulled over and decided to take your picture while you were sleeping? [...]

Living in New York City means that some birds are not very easy to find.  Living in New York City also means that I miss the company of some of the birders who helped teach me birding when I was first starting out as a birder.  Visiting upstate means that I can figuratively kill two [...]

My final outdoor adventure of my weekend upstate was a brief visit to the Ramshorn-Livingston Sanctuary in Catskill, NY, just over the county line in Greene County.  Early on Sunday morning my brother needed a ride to Catskill to meet up with a fellow golfer so they could hit the links, and I volunteered myself, [...]

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 [...]

It had been over a week since the bird was first seen and nearly a week since it was first identified.  What bird am I talking about?  The Swainson’s Hawk in Greene County, New York, discovered by upstate birder and Greene County partisan, Rich Guthrie, and described by him here, here, and here.  Why does [...]

Saturday, two days after Thanksgiving, started with a predawn dark ride up the Thruway from Saugerties to Coxsackie where the Coxsackie Boat Launch, the Coxsackie Creek Grassland Preserve, and Will from The Nightjar awaited me.  Well, actually I arrived early so I hit the boat launch as the sun first started to lighten the sky [...]

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 [...]

So, just like the previous weekend I headed down to visit my folks this past Sunday and, en route, did some birding. For some reason I couldn’t get excited about the birds I was seeing. Maybe I birded too much this weekend, maybe I’m just too stressed about moving next weekend, and maybe I need [...]

On Friday I expended another of my precious days off from work to get a jump-start on the Memorial Day weekend. My friend Tom, just back from surveyor school, and I had planned to hit up the the Adirondacks in an attempt at some of the northern specialties but the warm weather brings out black-flies [...]