I’m a New Yorker. I was born in the Hudson Valley and grew up in the Catskills, went to school in the Southern Tier,...
In recounting my Rochester Snowy Owl encounter last week, I mentioned my new birding buddy, Laura Kammermeier. Bill of the Birds made our mutual...
bird blogs most often (per capita)? Washington State, of course. StateStats lets one choose a term and see what state searches for that term...
In birding parlance, a “spark bird” is the species that mutates one’s benign regard for nature into a seething, immoderate interest in avifauna. Do...
As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian Quizmaster. It’s Saturday. That means...
Years ago, I wrote about the glaring homogeneity in North American birding circles and by glaring, I mean all that bright white skin. The...
Saturday, two days after Thanksgiving, started with a predawn dark ride up the Thruway from Saugerties to Coxsackie where the Coxsackie Boat Launch, the...
When I am having anything larger than the mailbox in my apartment building shipped to me I specify that I need to have it...
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