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Wallcreeper in New York!

10,000 Birds

It’s not anywhere near as interesting as one of those amazing pink-winged Wallcreepers showing up in New York. Well maybe it’s just a Brown Creeper on a wall. But that’s still interesting, right? I was out there doing a seawatch hoping to find something rare going past.

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Birding – While Camping – North Lake State Park, Greene County, New York

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This past weekend I was disconnected from the internet, stuck in the woods without electricity, reduced to sleeping in a shelter made of fabric, and cooked meals over an open fire. No, I wasn’t being punished, the apocalypse had not come, and I was putting myself through these privations voluntarily! Mom has a bug! Nom nom nom nom nom.

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Glenlossie Distillery: 10-Year-Old Speyside Single Malt Whisky

10,000 Birds

One of the rites of passage I underwent as a birder following my move from New York City to upstate New York was my first winter excursion to the rolling, snow-covered grasslands north of Albany to look for Short-eared Owls ( Asio flammeus ). Sometimes you’ll see no owls at all.

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Where Are You Birding This Fourth Weekend of May 2020?

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I’ll be breaking shelter in place for a visit to friends in New York’s Southern Tier. We should all savor this moment, one of the best birding periods of the year, bar none. Even better, May 2020 features as many weekends as a month can accommodate, so live it up!! How about you?

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Best Bird of the Weekend (Last of June 2019)

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.” Even if the words are new to you, the sentiment surely resonates. This month may have brought uncommon cold and rain to Upstate New York, but June went out on an exceedingly high note for us. Still, I didn’t travel far afield this weekend.

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Urban Resource Institute and Purina Unveil the Purina Play Haven

4 The Love Of Animals

Studies show that as many as 48% of domestic violence victims stay in abusive situations out of fear of what would happen if they left their pets behind, and more than 70% of pet owners who enter shelter report that the abuser has threatened, injured, or killed family pets.

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Twenty-Four Hours of Awesome Part One: A Burrowing Owl?!?!?!

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My first thought was that it was probably a hoax but I found the link and shared it to the New York Birders Facebook page, hoping to find out if anyone knew if it was the real deal. Unfortunately, we were heading south on Woodhaven Boulevard along with at least half of the population of New York City. None of them did.

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