Hi Tristan, I really like your examples. This academic inquiry is made richer for us by your logic. As for Mountain lions, wow.... there is a beast that has an entirely different and very complex suit

Dear HM-Birders, et al. Here is an interesting, perhaps comparable, example among fishes: We import Grass carp, or White amur (Ctenopharyngodon idella) for the sole purpose of aquatic vegetation contr

Rich, et al. My reply to Tristan....(in part) Dear Tristan, Are we 100% sure no one puts Pheasant on their land for reasons other than hunting? The survivability question is one we hear over and over.

Rich - - - Were those chick imported for future gunplay? Or was that natural propagation? Tom

The Ring-necked Pheasant seems to be a sticker for some as to counting in CBCs. We count Starlings. Is there a difference? With fish we count carp. With trees we count the London plane. With reptiles

Saratoga Lake on Wednesday ... there were nine Snow Geese offshore of Brown's Beach. We need snowy and frigid nor-easter in Quebec to get more. Tom Lake Tom Lake New York State Department of Environme

Love them! Photos? Last May 2, Jim Yates had one at the Kingston Lighthouse (river mile 92) Tom Tom Lake New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Estuary Naturalist, Region 3, Hudson Ri

Hormones? Breeding season. Tom

Brenda, Bald Eagles are no longer the new kid on the block. Go back 20 years and they seemed to be necessary for everyone's life list, so we had to keep a low profile. Now they are far too common to h

Unfortunately, my experience has been that DRONES hold a special place in the realm of enforcement, or lack of. In the half-dozen times I have witnesses inappropriate flying of drones, by the time enf

Hi Rich - Interesting as to how times have changed. In the early-to-mid 2000s, such a find (a new and highly visible Bald Eagle nest) would have immediately gone under a cloak of secrecy. Our concern

Hi John - From the photo, it looks like it may be a Harp Seal (Pagophilus groenlandicus) an Arctic seal). You might remember that we had a Harp seal in the river last April (see photo). It is not beyo

To: James McClenaghan - With regard to your Facebook post, who took the photo of the seal in the Hudson River? I'd like to get an original of it if possible. Tom Lake Tom Lake New York State Departmen

Cackling goose (Branta hutchinsii) .....? Tom Lake

Rich - According to Ken McDermott, there have been some gatherings in the Wallkill River Valley, in the usual locations, maybe Camel Farm (?). Surely many more to come.

Good advice Rich... I saw none from 9/18 until just this minute. There is presently (Wappingers Falls) one each on my two feeders taking very long drinks. Over the last five years, my "last hummer" ha

Scott, An adult "on-time" Red-shouldered Hawk, easily out-points a "late in the season" Broad-winged Hawk! TOM Tom Lake New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Estuary Naturalist, Regi

Scott, An adult "on-time" Red-shouldered Hawk, easily out-points a "late in the season" Broad-winged Hawk! TOM Tom Lake New York State Department of Environmental Conservation Estuary Naturalist, Regi

NOTE: Right after I sent the Osprey w/fish e-mail, I realized it was probably a shorthead redhorse (Moxostoma macrolepidotum). Greater redhorse is not found in the watershed. The shorthead redhorse, a

Looks like a greater redhorse. Tom Lake