by a New Yorker?!? Rich Guthrie of Albany describes his trip to the bottomland and glimpse of what may have been the Lord God...

Eerie. Sinister. Unnaturally still. These are apt descriptions for those wondrous waders, the night herons. These stout birds of the genera Nycticorax and Gorsachius...

Rich Guthrie, one of the deans of Albany-area birding, posted this on the local and state listserves: Yes, out of area, but I thought...