Saturday I was down in New York City once again and because Daisy has law...
4:15 AM. Shower, coffee, kiss Daisy good-bye. Rain and cold and dark. Queens Boulevard, Brooklyn-Queens...
Pink-footed Goose. Barnacle Goose. Western Kingbird. After seeing those three birds in the first thirty...
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After adding an Ash-throated Flycatcher to my year list I stuck around Jamaica Bay for...
After a late night playing poker with my father and his friends (and getting my...
Up at 4. On the road by 4:45. Dark Adirondacks, cold, long, lonely highway. Dawn....
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