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Birding Esopus Bend Nature Preserve

10,000 Birds

This past weekend had the family and me visiting my folks for Easter in my hometown of Saugerties, New York, “Where,&# as the slogan says, “The Catskills Meet the Hudson.&# Because I am an absurdly early riser of late I had some time before breakfast on Sunday to get out for some birding.

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Colorful + Devious = Toucans of Costa Rica

10,000 Birds

Like crows and jays, they are social, vocal, intelligent, and omnivorous (including eating eggs and nestlings). There were birds to watch but they were the gulls and ducks on the river, the sparrows in the fields, the finches that came to the feeder, the beautiful American Kestrel on the roadside wire. Yes, this bird acts like a jay.

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Collaborative list – August 2018

10,000 Birds

Can the whole family live together in harmony during the school holidays? LeConte’s Sparrow – Ammospiza leconteii. Baird’s Sparrow – Centronyx bairdii. Henslow’s Sparrow – Centronyx henslowii. Black-crowned Sparrow-Lark – Eremopterix nigriceps. Bravo if you have.

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