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Today on the way up to Coxsackie I stopped at 4 Mile Point. Didn’t see the Screech-Owl or any “good” passerines (wrens, thrushes, etc.). However, while walking a trail on the Scenic Hudson property I did flush a lone BARRED OWL ahead of me. Unexpected, but totally gratifying.
The Coxsackie Boat Launch held over 400 […]

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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 […]

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 […]

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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 […]

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No real back story here. We did some banding today in the Lowlands at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies targeting American Robins, which surprisingly have been terribly difficult to catch. We did catch 5 today, as well as a few cool other birds. Here are some photos for some of these birds that had […]

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Today while capturing and banding birds for the Anaplasma project at IES, we had a nice assortment of birds make their way into the net. While the highlights were several, please take a look at the photos below.
Bird on!
Chad

IES Lowlands at dawn

Carolina Wren

Eastern Phoebe

Eastern Phoebe closeup

Willow Flycatcher

Female American Redstart

Female American Redstart

Female Ruby-throated Hummingbird

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Several weeks ago I started my current position as a bird bander at the Cary Institute of Ecosystem Studies in Millbrook, NY. For the first time in my career as a bird biologist I was given the opportunity to work in the local area which I grew up in (I work one county south of […]

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With my window open today getting some atmosphere into my room, I heard the trill of a singing Dark-eyed Junco outside my yard across the street. This is the first of trills that I have heard this year, and it made me remember one of my favorite articles that I wrote on the site, the […]