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Spring Bird Walk at Mud Creek
In the heart of Columbia County, NY lies the Mud Creek Environmental Learning Center (ELC) in the town of Ghent. Facilities for the nature center include trails, an indoor classroom, and the Hudson River Estuary exhibit room. The trails are open daily from dawn to dusk and traverse a mixture of wetland and field habitats [...]
Cabin Chickadees
For the past few months I’ve been working on my dream cabin in the woods. A small property to share with my fiancee to get away from all the stresses of everyday life. While there are many steps before the cabin becomes livable for us, with a hopeful move in date in 2013, the two [...]
Everybody’s Got Something to Hide Except Me and My Turkey!
With Chat Happens being revamped from the ground up it’s tough to get out for much birding these days outside from glancing out the window at the feeders. Interestingly enough there was a unique visitor to the feeder that hasn’t been observed before: a Wild Turkey! Now, Wild Turkeys have been observed before in the [...]
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