When one is doing a Big Year in New York one must go on pelagic trips. As many as possible. Because I wasn’t doing...

Saturday I was down in New York City once again and because Daisy has law school finals to study for I had plenty of...

I was in Plattsburgh, NY, for work, minding my own business and walking across SUNY-Plattsburgh’s campus. Bird calls, familiar bird calls: Pine Grosbeaks. Of...

4:15 AM. Shower, coffee, kiss Daisy good-bye. Rain and cold and dark. Queens Boulevard, Brooklyn-Queens Expressway, Grand Central Parkway, Triboro Bridge, Major Deegan, Thruway,...

has been released. The joint project of the National Audubon Society and the American Bird Conservancy includes 178 species in the continental U.S. and...

Pink-footed Goose. Barnacle Goose. Western Kingbird. After seeing those three birds in the first thirty seconds of actually birding on Sunday it would be...

Yesterday was the day I would break 300 birds for the year in New York State. A plethora of rare-for-New York birds had been...

After my last adventure in the high hills of western Albany County I got an email from Christine, the birder who found my year...