Merry Christmas

Filed under: Chat — Chad December 24, 2009 @ 9:42 pm

Merry Christmas to all of you from all of us at Chat Happens.

The Gulls are Coming…

Filed under: Chat — Chad December 20, 2009 @ 11:38 am

Greetings,
Last night I had the great fortune of spending some time with Chat Happens Co-Administrator, Ryan, for a little dinner on his way through my home area. Catching up was of course great, as were talks of birding adventures past and hopeful ones in the future. Catching me totally off guard at the end of […]

Winter’s Sprite

Filed under: Chat — Chad December 14, 2009 @ 10:48 am

Looking outside my window this morning towards my bird feeders, I noticed one of which is perhaps my favorite birds to see in the winter. No, it wasn’t a redpoll, or a siskin, or even a grosbeak, it was perhaps a bird that some don’t associate with winter…a wren. Now, living in the northeast in […]

Winter Raptor Research 2009/2010

Filed under: Chat — Chad December 12, 2009 @ 11:22 am

Greetings,
In the coming weeks to months I will have the great opportunity to be working for the Greene County IDA in upstate NY studying the land usage of winter raptors on two parcels of land. These lands are a part of the greater Coxsackie Grasslands Complex, a unique and truly valuable resource to grassland birds […]