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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 [...]

This morning in a pea-soup fog I drove up to the Saratoga National Cemetery before work in the hopes of tracking down Vesper Sparrows. They had been reported there over the weekend by Jory, who you met when we went looking for a Tufted Duck. I even spoke to Jory yesterday to make sure I [...]

A Common Gull Larus canus was spotted in Brooklyn over this past weekend and again on Monday. Common Gulls are native to Europe where they are common (duh).  They are now the same species as our west coast Mew Gull (though they haven’t always been) so you could use either name though they may someday [...]