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In Search of New York’s Breeding Birds

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On Saturday I awakened at 3:30 AM, tiptoed out of the house as quietly as I could, and headed north and west to Sullivan County, the first of three counties I planned to visit in a series of surgical birding strikes to see (or hear) the birds I had thus far missed this year as they migrated through New York City.

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So, What Do Robins Mean? or, Spring-Watch Continued

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But two days ago, this Debbie Downer got her comeuppance! You see, as I walked across the park with Muir, my attention was drawn upwards by a large flock of birds coming in to settle in a mountain ash. Robin photo courtesy of the US Fish and Wildlife Service and Dr. Thomas G. He took it in good spirits. Barnes a.

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Central Waters Brewing Company: Brewhouse Coffee Stout

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Today on Birds and Booze , we’re going to be mixing our uppers and downers. There’s a metaphor for birding lurking in that description too, but I’ll leave that be.). Without assuming the worst of our readers and their chemical dependencies, I suspect coffee is probably a much bigger part of birding culture than alcohol.

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