What better way to spend Christmas Eve than driving so far north in New York State that you are actually north of the Adirondacks...

Today, the winter solstice, December 22, is the shortest day of the year in the northern hemisphere. It is also, despite the quantity of...

“The White Birds,” a poem W.B. Yeats wrote early in his career as a poet and dramatist, is like his other early works in...

Tuesday was the day for me to use my third-to-last day off of the year for, what else, birding! The Catskill-Coxsackie Christmas Bird Count,...

If you haven’t been dipping into the deep pool of 10,000 Birds archives lately you might not have noticed that all of the posts...

and the Patriot Tortoise! Hunter at Daily Kos has finally figured out how to get the less conservation-minded segments of the American body politic...

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This year, for the second year in a row, Sector C of the Saratoga Christmas Bird Count was mine. Last year, Will, Tom, Bruce...