Some sites simply must be sought out by North American birders, at least those of us in the East Coast set. Cape May, for...

As always when I am in the car, while Daisy and I drove to my folks’ house in Saugerties, NY, to join family for...

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

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

are erupting from the far north in serious numbers. Matt Medler of the Boreal Songbird Initiative has the details on eBird.

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...

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

This is a big year for winter finches! Already John of A DC Birding Blog has summarized Ron Pittaway’s Winter Finch Forecast for 2007-2008...