Greetings,
I want to give my thanks to Will Raup and Corey Finger for their invitation to this year’s Hudson Mohawk Century Run in upstate NY. It has been several years now since I have done any big days on the east coast due to doing bird research in CA, so it felt great to be […]

Off to Cape May, NJ with my girlfriend for a few days of relaxation, and of course a few birds too!

Greetings,
Getting out of work late this afternoon, my girlfriend and I decided to do a little birding at the local state park (Lake Taghkanic), and we were not disappointed. The clear highlight was a single flyover BLACK VULTURE. It was observed in good light and showed all the definitive marks of the species including a […]

Greetings,

Getting out of work today my folks asked me if I
wanted to join them for dinner so I decided to take
them up on it, especially because they also wanted to
go for a ride to one of my local birding haunts, Lake
Taghkanic State Park.

Driving out to the park we drove by Miller Rd in
Churchtown and I […]

Greetings,
Taking some time off after work this afternoon, my girlfriend Betsi and I decided to go down to the Copake Rail Trail on Under Mountain Rd. off Rte 22 in the southeast corner of Columbia County. This region in the past has produced great birds for me including: Chestnut-sided, Yellow, Blackburnian, Cerulean, and Worm-eating Warblers. […]

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Greetings,

Having the first day off from work in what is going to
be a while I decided to sleep in, but eventually made
it outside around 11am for a little birding at the
usual haunts.

Miller Road and Geoffroy’s Pond- Churchtown: 1 OSPREY,
3 BARN SWALLOWS, 1 WARBLING VIREO, 4 YELLOW WARBLERS,
and 1 EASTERN TOWHEE.

Lake Taghkanic […]