Brief stops this afternoon at two sites in Cohoes - Cohoes Flats (Clark Ave.) had one adult Bald Eagle and several Common Mergansers along with the Great Balck-backed Gulls, Mallards, and Canada Geese

The next Hudson-Mohawk Bird Club board meeting will be held this Monday, 1/17 at 6:30 p.m. via Zoom. All HMBC members are welcome to attend; meeting information follows below: Tristan Lowery President

On our return, Sunday, from the Mountain Bluebird, Mark and I observed a dark morph Rough-legged Hawk soaring above the Greene County Sheriff's Office on 9 W. Alison Van Keuren

Brrrr, on the walk around the preserve found 1 chickadee, 1 goldfinch, 1 white throated Sparrow, one downy woodpecker, and one flyover bald eagle. Plus the precursor to the wolf moon, with accompanyin

I'm surrounded by farmland in Stuyvesant and have many field species. Yesterday I noticed 40-50 grackles at my feeders, unusual this time of year. Then went outside to see 400-500 of them covering my

DYI, please see the below release and survey from the Mohawk Hudson Land Conservancy about the Nature Bus. - Scott Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone -------- Original message -------- Fr

While driving around some of the agricultural areas near Schaghticoke in northern Rensselaer County today, Robert and I found a Golden Eagle perched in a tree on Hayes Road. After a short while it fle

Hey Thursday birders! Looks like we'll luck out with the mildest temperatures of the week, light winds, and only a slight chance of snow showers. Short-eared Owls have been seen at both Black House an

I birded the Washington County grasslands this afternoon; raptors few but did end up with 1 Kestrel, 1 Rough-legged Hawk, 3 Short-eared Owls (distant), and 1 Snowy Owl, on the roof of a building on a

At 3:45, 3 northern pintails and one lesser scalp among lots of the usual three suspects. One belted kingfisher also. Alan Mapes Saratoga

Pleasant walk near Discovery Center. First bird, a hermit thrush. Later, the two nuthatches, a golden crowned kinglet, downy and harry woodpeckers, tufted titmice, chickadees, juncos, blue jays, at le

At 3 pm on Wall Road, .7 mile south of King, large flock of horned larks with a half dozen snow buntings and at least one Lapland longspur. They are on a manure spread on the east side. Across the roa

There was a large mixed flock of Snow Buntings and Horned Larks close to the road on Rt. 40 between Williams Lane and Goff Rd. at 11:30 this morning. - Jeff

currently a flock of several hundred horned larks with at least one Lapland longspur and 2 snow buntings in the field at the intersection of SR 32 and Rugg Rd. there are wide shoulder spots on 32 near

We hope you can join us on Monday evening at 6:30 PM for the HMBC program: Birding Alaska: 1100 Miles of the Last Frontier, with Scott Stoner and Denise Hackert-Stoner Brought to you by the Hudson-Moh

Scott Stoner and I had a long-tailed duck (juv or basic female plumage) downstream of the Crescent power plant dam this afternoon. Couldn't locate any unusual gulls though. The gull flock appeared to

slightly extralimital report...Denise and I drove up to Piseco Lake yesterday in search of crossbills. None found at the many pullout on rt 10 between Caroga Lake and Piseco, but we did find a group o

At the Five Rivers EEC, yesterday 4th, a Red-winged Blackbird in the orchard and a Hermit Thrush near the Fox Marsh. Today a Common Raven flyover. Scott Stoner, Loudonville NY Sent from my Verizon, Sa

revising to glaucous after reviewing some pretty terrible long-distance camera and digiscope photos and video frame-grabs, the gull appears to have a typical immature glaucous bill -- long, thick, and

viewing somewhat confusing gull at long range from boat launch lot. tentatively Iceland, but will see if photos provide more detail. seems somewhat intermediate between 1st yr iceland and glaucous. bu