5ish redpolls were feeding with some goldfinches in the larches near Englewood Place in Washington Park. I’ll check my photos later.

Redpolls. Nice!

Looks like a pretty clear-cut Hoary inasmuch as such a thing exists - unmarked undertail coverts, very diffuse streaking on the breast, and a noticeably small, pushed in bill.

I cannot speak for CBCs but eBird reviewers don’t generally use countability to evaluate whether a sighting can be confirmed. (There are exceptions to this, like when a sighting is rejected by a state

The breeding bird atlas is not “ completely based on observational data by a remarkably scant population of volunteer observers.” There is a concrete set of requirements for the completion of each pri

Well, all Ring-necked pheasants in North America are descendents of artificially introduced birds, but the species is established and countable in New York. For ABA purposes, this pheasant is probably

I believe the state releases them there for hunters. (Or so a ranger told me once when he saw me walking along the new trail and mistook my scope for a firearm.)

I checked this morning and didn't see the bird, but it was early in the day and there was a lot of traffic, so i couldn't stop and was birding at 55 mph.

For what it's worth, Barnacle Geese are much smaller than Canada Geese - only slightly larger than a Cackling Goose - and their bodies are a frosty gray - especially on the back - not brown.

While taking my toddler on a snowy walk through Washington Park this morning, I heard the calls of a group of Common Redpolls. I wasn’t my able to get on them (and didn’t’ throng my binoculars, so I’m

Early this morning I found seven or so Pine Grosbeaks continuing behind the Queensbury Middle School. While I was watching them, a group of 19 Snow Buntings set down in the back of the parking lot for

The bird i had on the ice from the second pulloff yesterday morning was also an immature bird

Yesterday morning I visited the continuing grosbeak flock behind Queensbury Middle School. There were at least 25 birds present. The crabapples have been worked over pretty well, and I wouldn’t be sur

Hi Scott, any chance you got photos? Any swallow this late is very unusual and it’s good to rule out some exotic possibilities.

The man who lives in the home behind the church just told me he feels very uncomfortable with people taking photos in his backyard and asked me to leave.

I’ve been tied up with moving craziness for the last few days and not getting out much, but this morning, I found about two dozen pine grosbeaks feeding in the crabapples behind Queensbury Middle Scho

At dawn this morning I had some flyover white-winged crossbills about a quarter mile down the purple trail at the Madison Avenue Pinelands section of the Albany Pine Bush Preserve. Also present were a

Still here, still in the buckthorn this morning.

Julie Hart reports that the bird is still present at Ooms Conservation Area this morning.

Haven’t seen it posted here today, but positive reports of the Ooms Conservation Area sage thrasher this morning from Tom Williams and Menachem Goldstein.