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After our anniversary weekend I drove Daisy to the train station and pondered my options. Go home to watch football? Do some much-needed apartment cleaning? Run some errands? No to all of those, of course, I went birding! But instead of wandering through fields and forests I decided to find myself a spot to sit [...]

So far this year in New York I have seen Red-eyed Vireos, White-eyed Vireos, Warbling Vireos, Yellow-throated Vireos and Blue-headed Vireos. The Philadelphia Vireo, which nests much further north and only in scattered locations in the Adirondacks, has eluded me. Eluded me, that is, until Sunday. On Sunday morning at 6:30 AM a fellow Albany-area [...]

When we left off our exhausted team, having birded for over 13 straight hours already, was headed north from Coxsackie with a little over 100 species for the day. A quick stop at the Dunn Memorial Bridge in our third county of the day, Rennselaer County, to pick up the nesting Peregrine Falcons was successful [...]