The 2013 season at the Franklin Mt. Hawkwatch came to a quiet end today, with no raptors recorded on light to moderate westerly winds. This marked the 25th consecutive year of counting at the site.

Nancy Kern Lock 6 State Canal Park, Saratoga, US-NY Jan 1, 2014 12:15 PM - 12:55 PM Protocol: Traveling 4.0 mile(s) Comments: Sunny, 21 F temp., calm. Most water frozen, but some areas open where

Nancy Kern Town of Stuyvesant, Columbia, US-NY Jan 1, 2014 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM Protocol: Traveling 10.0 mile(s) Comments: Drove Columbia County Rt. 21 and Ridge Rd. Temp 20 F, fairly calm, some sun

Nancy Kern Albany International Airport, Albany, US-NY Jan 1, 2014 10:10 AM - 11:45 AM Protocol: Traveling 4.0 mile(s) Comments: 20 F temp., some sun 14 species Red-tailed Hawk (Eastern)

Happy New Year everyone! Around 1:00 today Carl & I joined the many other HMBC birders at the Albany Airport (Sicker Rd. off Wade Rd from Rt 7) where we had great views of 3 different Snowy Owls. An

It was a great first day of birding 2014. The annual Jan 1 bird count at five rivers, led by Craig Thompson, had over 35 species including common raven, yellow-bellied sapsucker, purple finch,

Though not quite to the Tom Williams' level, I did have 196 species in Saratoga County for 2013, a personal best. I started my 2014 list today by looking along the Hudson River and nearby roads from

Today (1/1) my husband and I decided to head out to the airport (an hour drive) to try to see the snowy owls. We weren't disappointed. We headed for Sicker Rd, and found a group of birders who helped

Greetings, After taking the trip this morning for the Snowy Owls at Albany International, I spent the afternoon hiking around the woods in Livingston (Columbia Co.). While passing through an area

Came down this afternoon and found group incl John Hershey at bend on Sicker Road. We found the adult and two younger snowy owls hanging around the runways. With planes landing and taking off it's

Rough-legged Hawk at the airport, not Osprey. (turn the page, Neil...) Neil To: jnphotonet@... CC: hmbirds@... From: nfmanning@... Date: Wed, 1 Jan 2014 14:02:19 -0500 Subject: Re: [HMBirds] Snowy

The adult currently sits atop the Mobil Air Transport building just off Sicker Rd East. Also, a possible Osprey is hanging around the airport grounds...

Here is a short video and 2 newphotos of the darker snowy owl at ALB from today. . . given using 2 converters with slow focus, shooting through the fence, a shaking tripod from the wind, and sun

Greetings, In addition to the 3 Snowy Owls previously reported by Will off of Sicker Rd., there was a nice flock of at least 15 Horned Larks and a dozen Snow Buntings along with at least one LAPLAND

All 3 Snowy Owls were present at the Albany Airport from Sicker Road this morning.  They at times all came together and interacted with one another, doing aerial battles, locking talons and generally

Hi all, I took a walk around Cooper's Pond this morning and found a nice number of common birds for the start of the year. The highlight was a (less common) GRAY CATBIRD that was hanging out with some

Here's an image(thru the fence) from today of a landing snowy owl . . .quite white compared to other snowy owls I have seen during this irruption. For an image gallery of snowy owls from 4 different

HM Birders who use e-bird: A new "hotspot" has been created called Albany Airport Sicker Rd (East of Runways).  I ask that all future sightings of the owls from that location use this hotspot and

striking an unintended contrarian tone to all the reports from the airport, cathy and I tooled around farm fields in northumberland and ft edward this afternoon. we encountered a very dark snowy owl,

Congratulations to both of them!  In addition, both Tom William's each saw about 91% of the total birds reported to e-bird for Albany County! But let's also thank our other Top e-Birders in our