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On a recent brief visit to Jones Beach where I dipped on a rare-for-the-eastern-United States White-winged Dove I made up for my dip to some degree with both my first-of-the-year Gull-billed Terns and two absolutely adorable young Killdeer, or, as some prefer to call them, Killfawns.  The Killfawns were along the road with their mother [...]

The Killdeer eggs at my coworker Andrea’s sister’s house have hatched! three hours out of the egg Well, three of the four have so far, and a couple of days early too. The heat that reached the nineties today in Saratoga County left the mother panting (birds don’t sweat), but she hung in there, shading [...]

Just like Paula alerting me to the baby robins at her parents’, which have fledged, another coworker, Andrea, alerted me to a Killdeer nest at her sister and brother-in-law’s place in Malta, NY.  She actually called me last night to find out what kind of bird it was and to find out what they should do [...]