New York Big Year

After our successful search for Sandhill Cranes and various shorebirds at Montezuma National Wildlife Refuge, Will, Zack and I headed…

The early bird gets the worm and the early birder gets the birds. Once again awakening before dawn this morning,…

I had an unexpected opportunity to torture myself some more today when my job (you know, the thing you do…

Since I decided in June to make this year as big a birding year as possible in New York State…

Since last Sunday a rare-for-North America Western Reef Heron has been alternately frustrating and rewarding birders from the Empire State…

After a decent night’s sleep the intrepid gang of four awakened in the dark once again, hoping to top the…

It was somewhere around the twelfth hour of birding the Adirondacks this past Saturday that it struck me: birders are…

When I arrived at Jones Beach on Thursday morning I planned to check out the area around the Coast Guard…

When the alarm clock went off at 3:30 AM Sunday morning I never even heard it. Daisy did though, and…

The weekend began for me with a Friday night for the ages, if I could only remember it. Daisy, her…