Deposits on bottled water in NY to begin October 31st...

When I got the e-mail from Barbara Toborg, Conservation Coordinator of the Northeast Chapter of the American Littoral Society that we neede...

Fall Foliage and Raptor Migration hike at Sterling Forest NY…

On Sunday October 25th, eighteen participants assembled in front of the NYC Audubon headquarters on 71 West 23rd St and boarded a van and c...

Wordless Wednesday...

White-Throated Sparrow at the backyard feeder...

I wanted to get better White-throated Sparrow photos as the one I published in my last post was not an open shot. This weekend, I managed a ...

News from the backyard Oct 6th - Oct 22nd...

I have been asked by some of my readers about my backyard/garden posts. Well, here is one for October. This post covers some of the birds...

Wordless Wednesday...

Birding Robert Moses State Park...

I joined my friends and birders extraordinaire Shai Mitra and Pat Lindsay on Saturday October 11th, for a day of birding at Robert Moses St...

Rufous Hummingbird - A Possible Record First for Staten Island NY...

On Sunday, while I was out birding at Fire Island NY, I got a text message about a possible Rufous Hummingbird in Staten Island. The name o...

Wordless Wednesday...

Swainson's Hawk in New Baltimore, Greene County NY...

When Christine Guarino posted on the 6th, that Rich Guthrie had seen a Swainson's Hawk near the Thruway Exit 21B in New Baltimore, Gree...