Greetings,
With recent reports of waterfowl numbers increasing in the Fingerlakes, and of other sightings including Snow Buntings, and Lapland Longspurs, can winter and it’s feathered gems really be that far off? Probably not. In fact, today I had the first Dark-eyed Juncos of the season underneath my feeders. Surely a sign of things to come. […]

Greetings,
Earlier this month, good friend, Anne Pellegrini and many other birders across northern California (and elsewhere?) had the good fortune of viewing Marin County’s eighth record of Yellow-green Vireo, a beautiful vireo whose northern limits fall just south of the US-Mexican border. This wonderful record should come as no real surprise due to the great […]

Over the course of the last few days the area has seen breezy conditions, and at times torrential rain, two causes that often starve off the night migration of birds, putting them on hold. Seeing the weather conditions for today, I realized that tonight held the chance of a good nocturnal migration for birds over […]