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On Sunday, the same day that I enjoyed a bunch of winter birds in Sullivan County and Ulster County, I also had a chance encounter with a diminutive goose. It was on the side of the road in a field at Blue Chip Farm, a large horse farm near the town of Wallkill. But it [...]

Now up and running for over two years the Walkway Over The Hudson, which was once a bridge for trains to make their way over the Hudson River, is a pretty darn cool place to take a stroll.  Looking down on the Hudson River from 212 feet in the air is an experience worth having [...]

This past weekend had the family and me visiting my folks for Easter in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, “Where,” as the slogan says, “The Catskills Meet the Hudson.”  Because I am an absurdly early riser of late I had some time before breakfast on Sunday to get out for some birding.  The only [...]

This past weekend was another upstate weekend, and one couldn’t have created a more beautiful Labor Day weekend if one had a weather machine and the willingness to use it.  The sun shone from blue skies with fluffy white clouds for almost the entire weekend while a cool breeze blew to prevent the heat from [...]

The first half of the day on Sunday was reserved for birding a couple of hot spots in the counties north of New York City, and the first of those hot spots was Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster County.  Seth, Stella, and I made our way north and, as we approached Blue Chip Farm, [...]

Daisy, Desi and I had a wonderful Christmas visiting my folks upstate.  One of the nice things about seeing so many relatives is that everyone wanted to help take care of Desi, which meant that Daisy and I had a bit more time to, well, do whatever we wanted.  For me, this included making a [...]

As I already said in my previous post that featured a juvenile Brown-headed Cowbird, this past weekend my parents and I explored the Shawangunk Grasslands, a National Wildlife Refuge in southern Ulster County in the Hudson Valley.  The grasslands used to be an airport but when the airport was no longer needed it made sense, [...]

While home for holidays in I didn’t just go chasing after a Northern Hawk Owl.  I also watched the feeders frequently, often outside my parents’ house hidden in a woodpile.  Seriously.  In a woodpile.  You see, the woodpile is next to the deck which is where the feeders are, and the deck is attached to [...]

Though I did enjoy my birding with Will across the wilds of Greene and Albany Counties, most of my birding over the Thanksgiving Day weekend was done at my parents’ and and my aunt and uncle’s feeders.  My dad  had only put his feeders up about a week earlier and hadn’t drawn much of a [...]

Forgive me for throwing this story of a birding adventure out onto the internets before the tale of the three 10,000 Birds bloggers getting together on Friday for the first time, which you will all get to read about soon enough, but I saw some pretty darn cool birds today and I couldn’t wait to [...]

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 [...]

Friday saw me rushing down the NYS Thruway again to see Daisy for the weekend.  This whole long-distance thing is tough!  But since she had some studying to finish up in the library I had some time to take a shot at the recently reported Greater White-fronted Goose at Blue Chip Farm in southern Ulster [...]

About two weeks ago word went out on the New York listservs that a Bullock’s Oriole was frequenting feeders on Tremper Road in the tiny town of Phoenicia, NY, a mere twenty-five minutes from my hometown. Bullock’s Oriole is the western version of the Baltimore Oriole and the two are so similar that they were [...]