Hello All, Since more of you have been posting your butterfly sightings on this site but may not receive e-mail from or visit the NYSButterflies listserve, I'm...
Corey Finger who is attempting to do a big year in New York State (300 species), myself and the 'double D's' Daisy and Danika made one heck of a giant loop...
All, The last few days have shuffled the bird deck at my house. Chickadees are scarce, but Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are hitting the feeders pretty hard. Today,...
Can anyone please give me the name (s) of any bird rehabilitators in Northern New York, especially the northeastern quadrant? I would like to know in case I...
If you need to use a wheelchair and would like to go camping and birding in place designed to fit your needs then try the John Dillon Park - sponsored by...
All, Here are details for this Sunday's canoe field trip on Lake Lila sponsored by St. Lawrence-Adirondack Audubon and the Laurentian Chapter of the Adirondack...
Many thanks to so many of you who replied! I now have a looooooonnng list of contacts. Let's just hope I do not need to contact anyone. Happy Birding to all,...
The last few days have been perfectly lovely weatherwise. Plenty of sun, the air during midday warm enough but not hot or humid, and cool and thrilling after...
Hi We took a quick drive (2 hours) through Powley yesterday at 12:30 PM in the intermittant rain and managed to come up with 33 species of birds. The first...
The three AMERICAN KESTREL fledglings achieved independence from their nest box yesterday and have spent most of today scooting around from pine to pine near...
The HPAS River to River trip from the Hudson to the Opalescent will take place Saturday, July 7th. Meet at the Upper Works trailhead to Allen Mountain/Flowed...
I stayed with family at their cottage on the west shore of Pt. Peninsula. This past Saturday and Sunday was cool and very windy with white caps on Lake...
On the 4th Charlie Mitchell and I found a male Ruddy Duck in breeding plumage at Laurin's farm between the Great and Little Chazy Rivers. I got a glimpse of...
6/30/07 Low's Ridge-Upper Dam Trail (To the Bog River), Piercefield (St. Lawrence Co.) This is a belated report on last Saturday's Low's Ridge - Upper Dam...
In another example of the "Patagonia picnic table effect", Nancy Olsen and I found this tern while searching (unsuccessfully) for the Ruddy Duck seen on the...
Location: Northern End of Lake George, Near Cook Mountain Dates: July 5-6, 2007 By: Nancy A. Carter Last night, at 9:20-30 pm, I heard two whip-poor-wills...
Just an add on to what I forgot to include in my original post--- Out in the Lake there were the expected variety of gulls, with no surprises. The best...
All, I have mentioned this edible fruit before in several previous posts, but I wanted to pass along an observation that I noted this morning. The genus...
Corey Finger, Jory Langner, Tom Williams and myself made what seems to be our never ending quest this year of getting Adirondack birds. Day one we covered...
All, Here are details for Friday's field trip to the observation towers on Lower Lake sponsored by St. Lawrence-Adirondack Audubon. Joan Collins Potsdam & Long...
On a related note, 4 birders from the Albany area (including mysefl) found a non-breeding Red-necked Grebe from the Indian Creek Nature Center Tower on Sunday...
7/8/07 Lake Lila, Whitney Wilderness Area (Town of Long Lake in Hamilton Co.) We awoke on Sunday to thunder, lightning, and heavy rain in Potsdam - too late to...
All this talk about Lower Lake reminds me that I haven't posted anything about the Black Tern survey that Carol Cady and I conducted at Upper & Lower Lakes WMA...
An acquaintance of mine asked me if she could have seen an anhinga in Plattsburgh, to which I replied "probably not." She got back to me a few weeks later...
John, Just as "Golden Eagle" = Turkey Vulture, in the case of casual observers, so too does "Anhinga" = Double-crested Cormorant, in northern NYS. Joe...
An Anhinga over Plattsburg is certainly a possibility - though soaring cormorants can look deceptively anhinga-like. I lived in southwest Florida for a year...
There was 1 documented on property of the Delaware Sportsman Club in southwestern Ontario a few years ago............. ... [Non-text portions of this message...
