This year, for the second year in a row, Sector C of the Saratoga Christmas Bird Count was mine. Last year, Will, Tom, Bruce...
Long-eared Owls have long eluded me. Two winters ago Will found some roosting at Five Rivers, one of my favorite local birding spots, while...
Niagara Falls is a world-renowned tourist destination because of, well, the really freaking big waterfalls there. Because of the monstrous falls a host of...
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...
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,...
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...
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