Pity the poor bird who fails to fly south as its comrades take wing. Lack of foresight has been the undoing of many a...

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,...

This weekend two-thirds of the 10,000 Birds triumvirate participated in the 12th Annual Montezuma Muckrace. I’m pleased to report that we lived to tell...

Here’s some big news I’ve been waiting to spring on you all – I’m moving! No, not moving away from 10,000 Birds, as much...

Curt McDermott is a birder in Orange County, New York. He has an amazing array of feeders up in his small suburban yard that...

Saturday was a day for birding. After looking for winter gulls along the Mohawk River upstream from its confluence with the Hudson and not...

When I woke up Saturday morning I didn’t see my shadow, a good sign on Groundhog’s Day. Even better was the fact that I...

On Friday my job required me to be in Manhattan for meetings all afternoon. Seeing as I still live in Albany, didn’t relish the...