It’s been eight days since my trip on Friday, 3 July, to upstate New York to see the Mississippi Kite and I still haven’t...
Just yesterday, 3 July, I headed north out of the city by bus, met up with more birders in New Paltz, and continued all...
Shai Mitra is a birder-extraordinaire, a wonderfully patient teacher, a member of the New York State Avian Records Committee, and editor of The Kingbird,...
A million colors come with spring but one particular shade of blue bedevils the imaginations of northeastern American birders this time of year: cerulean....
I have been fortunate over the last week in that my folks let me borrow their car, which means I’ve had transportation for which...
Part of my meticulously crafted Father’s Day celebration (after the rain-lashed finale of an amazing Rochester Jazz Festival) was a spare hour of birding...
My friend Laura encountered a Lawrence’s Warbler, which is a rare Blue-winged/Golden-winged Warbler hybrid, just a week ago. This weekend, I finally had a...
For months, I’ve been looking forward to making a trip to Montezuma NWR. This New York birding hotspot, conveniently located (for me, but YMMV)...
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