Ken - looks like a Northern Mockingbird, nicely hiding the white in the tail and winds that would help with ID. I don't think anything else in our area is that...
Alan Mapes
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Jul 1, 2008 8:36 pm
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Ken, Your photo is a Northern Mockingbird (most likely a juvenile from the lack of a strong yellow iris). Steve M. Chorvas Saugerties, NY ... From: Ken Harper ...
Alan & Steve, Thanks for the ID assist. I had looked at Mockingbird but it just didn't seem to click with the colors, but now that you say it I can see the...
Greetings, Returning from working in NJ for the New Jersey Audubon Society, I spotted a pair of Black Vultures perched just south of Exit 21 (Catskill/Cairo)...
I just got off the phone with someone from the the Glenmont-Delmar area, asking me if I can explain a phenomena that is happening in their neighborhood. I had...
Sounds related to the behavior of our favorite(?) cardinal who constantly bombards our house windows and has been doing it for the 5 years we've lived here and...
I also had a red-winged blackbird do the same to my patio door, and my neighbor had a robin attacking the hubcaps on his car tires!? I think it might be that...
I had a similar experience a few years ago at Big Bend National Park in West Texas with a male Cardinal. The poor guy would land on the outside mirror of my...
This is a summary of the Hudson-Mohawk Birdline reports for the week ending July 2, 2008. Report your sightings in the Hudson-Mohawk Region (NYSOA region 8)...
I just got back today from a couple nights on Phelps Mtn. in the Adirondacks. The highlight was a female black backed woodpecker. A life bird for me! I say...
This morning I saw an unusual Least Bittern at Black Creek marsh. The bird was perched in cattails so that its head and neck were showing (dark cap, pale face,...
A friend has the following birding guides and maps that need a new home. Please email me off list if you are interested and I will forward your inquiry to the...
Ok, I have a serious question. My mom sent up a hummingbird feeder which I've hung outside with a little mixture. I know to change the contents frequently,...
Hi Marne, That's a lot of work (and maybe missing early morning and evening hummingbirds) for probably not a whole lot of gain. The greatest deterioration of...
Join today's Audubon National Day of Action for the Arctic Refuge by calling your US Representative. Details at http://wildbirdsunlimited.typepad.com/ Nancy C....
This is a summary of reports to the Hudson-Mohawk Birdline during the week ending July 9, 2008. Report your sightings in the Hudson-Mohawk Region (NYSOA...
I have posted a couple of photos of what we believe to have been a Green Heron chick taken this AM while at Vischer's Ferry NP with the Thursday morning group....
I got a message from Larry Alden saying that he thought the photo that I posted of the "heron chick" might rather be a Turkey poult. I did some research and...
Had a single Lesser Yellowlegs on my pond in Rensselaerville yesterday ( Friday). At dusk, as I was standing on the porch of my cabin, an American Woodcock...
More shorebirds yesterday at my Rensselaerville property. While the Lesser Yellowlegs was gone from my pond, in it's place were 5 Killldeer, 1 Solitary...
A group of 14 converged at the Hummingbird Manor entrance of the Reist Sanctuary Sat morning. Summertime temps and humidity were expected, along with numerous...
A Semipalmated Plover was keeping company with the Least Sandpipers on my pond in Rensselaerville today. I usually don't see as many shorebirds in the fall as...
This morning I saw a pair of Evening Grosbeaks and two pair of Rose-breasted Grosbeaks at a feeder outside of Warrensburg. The owner said that he has seen at...
MONTEZUMA MUCKRACE 12: SEPTEMBER 12-13, 2008 Audubon New York and Friends of the Montezuma Wetlands Complex announce the twelfth annual Montezuma Muckrace, to...
NCWC was called to pick up this juvenile "mourning dove" from the Burnt Hills Vet Hospital this morning. It is definately not a mourning dove and may even be...
It's a young pigeon - I would think there would be info available on what to feed, since they are often raised in captivity. Alan Mapes Delmar...
Alan Mapes
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Jul 16, 2008 4:00 pm
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I got this email from a Seattle birder who is going to be visiting Saratoga in August. Could someone in this group help him out with his questions? Hi. I'm a...
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