A beautiful Sunday hike at Lake Lauderdale today yielded White-throated, White-crowned, and Song Sparrows as well as Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Phoebes, and a host of non-migrants. Highlight of the day

This week we're at Ann Lee Pond in Colonie, with a meet-up scheduled for 8:30am. Birders can socialize and do stationary observing from the open area at the north end of the pond, next to the parking

I walked along the towpath west of the main parking lot at Vischer Ferry Preserve this morning. The warbler diversity has diminished but I found an abundance of fairly drab yellow-rumps and palm

If you couldn't make the zoom meeting last night, below is a link to the recording. Next program: November 2, topicnis Spruce Grouse in NYS. Scott HMBC Program Recording Birding Southeast

Yes, it's a bobwhite. Hunting clubs release them for sport and several farms in the area raise them. -- Zach Schwartz-Weinstein 203 500 7774

Hello fellow birders, I hope this email finds you well and healthy. A friend in the Saratoga Springs area shared some pics of unfortunately a deceased bird she found in her yard. I think it is a male

(sorry - did it again!) Let's meet at Vischer Ferry for late passerine migrants and maybe early waterfowl, 8:00am, at the Whipple Bridge parking

Naomi

I was looking out back this morning and saw my first Dark-eyed Junco feeding in the grass. It is my harbinger of cold weather and the sign that winter is coming. Nancy Kern Austerlitz, NY

I just had one at five Rivers as well -- Zach Schwartz-Weinstein 203 500 7774

Loudonville, Albany County.-Scott and Denise Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

hope you can join us tomorrow (Monday) evening at 6:30 PM ! - Scott and Denise Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

Eleven birders turned up for another morning of birding at Five Rivers EEC in Delmar. Once again, everyone chose option #2, "let's hike the trails." We dispersed to several different trailheads,

I found this useful note in The Warbler Guide (print edition): "Yellow tail with yellow undertail coverts is unique among US warblers," also mentioning the 'beady-eyed' look on an unmarked face. So

This week we're back at Five Rivers EEC in Delmar, with a meet-up scheduled for 8:30am. Birders can socialize and do stationary observing at Five Rivers, from the grounds near the Visitors Center, or

Hi everyone, we hope you can join the HMBC for its second virtual program of the fall: REMINDER HMBC Program Notice: Birding Southeast Arizona Monday, October 5, 2020, 6:30PM via Zoom meeting See

Just saw about a half-dozen Pine Siskins in my overgrown, weedy perennial garden. A nice surprise! Ellen P. West Charlton

Good morning Thursday birders! I'm hoping we see some migrant activity after that soaking rain. How about we try Peebles Island - adequately spacing on the trails and generally not sodden underfoot.

> Peebles Island SP, Saratoga, New York, US > Sep 25, 2020 8:00 AM - 11:45 AM > Protocol: Traveling > 2.25 mile(s) > Checklist Comments: As John H hinted. at, I am finally following up on his

Here's a heads-- up. I'll be doing the somewhat regularly scheduled Vox-Pop call in show at 2 tomorrow afternoon on WAMC. Tune in on 90.3 in Albany, on one of the many repeater frequencies around the