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So I woke up this morning and checked my email. An Ivory Gull in Piermont! What a wonderful opportunity to see this gorgeous species for the first time. Too bad I had to work, and, worse yet, my work would take me to Poughkeepsie, NY, more than halfway to Piermont…so close and yet so far. [...]

After leaving Point Lookout behind Will and I decided to head up to a pond next to St. John’s Episcopal Church in Cold Spring Harbor, NY, on the north shore of Long Island. The day before a Eurasian Wigeon and a Greater White-fronted Goose had been reported there, both of which would be lifers for [...]

In my previous post , I described a moderately successful owl prowl, in that I did spot an owl or two, obscured though those views may have been. But I ended the account with a cliffhanger, alluding to an even better owl sighting later that day. If you read the title of this missive, you [...]