Thanks to everyone who responded and viewed this email. I also thought it was a leucistic Red-tailed Hawk, but wanted to get the community to help confirm. Much obliged and Happy New Year to all! John

Hello HMBird Friends, I'm posting a picture of a bird with this email, that was sent to me by a fellow HMBirds follower and rehabber. She said she has not been able to post pictures using her HMBirds

Hi Fellow HMBirders! I thought I'd pass along a 'birding gift find' to get yourself or a gift for your favorite birder, a really incredible 2018 bird calendar from a young artist out of Delmar. I foun

Hello HMBirds Community! I figure I give an update regarding the followup search regarding the initial sighting and online photo postings of the Boreal Owl discovered in Johnstown just over a week ago

My brunch and birding partner and I did short walk over the railroad bridge and around the eastern side of the perimeter cliff trail, where we got some great long looks at some decent birds there. Bal

Hi Alan, I saw it off the very eastern trail in Zone 3 after crossing the second creek (Whitetail Creek) between trail markers G and H on the Town of Glenville Parks & Rec map of the preserve. John

Oh, and one other thing I forgot besides a Downy Woodpecker that I did see in a tree - a great look at a sleeping porcupine!

Hi All, I happen to find myself at Sander Town Preserve late afternoon Saturday for a short hike and enjoyed watching 40+ Cedar Waxwings feasting on the short berry trees by the sign-in kiosk and on t

Hi All, I'd like to thank Drew for reaching out to our strong, active, and caring birding community! As Drew mentioned, our local Audubon chapter is starting to explore and do our due diligent researc

Hello Fellow Birders! I’m following Andy Mason at OSBirds Yahoo group to also share with you that our Audubon Society of the Capital Region is also sponsoring our own bird seed sale fundraiser! The se

Hi Matthew, Haven't checked in a couple days, so just getting around to responding. I see you've located a couple Cerulean's already! Very Cool! From what I understand, the heaviest density of Cerulea

Was woken up, through my closed windows, last Friday January 2nd by a calling Great Horned Owl in the Madison Avenue section of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. I stayed up listening to him, while eatin

Hello All, In the spirit of Halloween, the Audubon Society of the Capital Region is offering their Free and Open to the Public 'creepy and crawly' monthly program on: "A HItchhikers Guide to Bird Ecto

Hi All! The Audubon Society of the Capital Region is hosting a presentation on Golden Eagle research here in NY and showing the best pictures and video of their camera traps from the last few years. T

Yesterday between 1:30 and 2pm, at a catch and release pull-off behind the CVS, I identified 5 male Red-headed mergansers, one red-headed merganser hen all diving at one point or another and a male Re