Still a male belted kingfisher hanging around the marina on Fish Creek, Saratoga area this afternoon. Saw it at Bryant’s Bridge a few days ago. Alan Mapes

There was a fairly diverse group of ducks in the limited open water just downriver from the Crescent Power Plant this morning. Three male Redheads, first found by Rich W. yesterday, were still present

Couple of light morph rough-legged, couple of harriers, and a meadowlark behind the little theater on plum rd on a windy and bitterly cold afternoon. No owls as of the time we left. Scott and Denise S

The most incredible winter finch irruption at home today . . . 12 female pine grosbeaks, 20 pine siskin, 30 common redpoll, and a stunning hoary redpoll offering all of the positive identification tra

After walking a couple trails in the pine bush unsuccessfully looking for crossbills I came home. Shortly after this guy showed up. I've lived here near Ellis hospital for 35 years, first time visitor

I stopped at the Albany Pine Bush this afternoon looking for crossbills and was not disappointed. There was a nice group of Red Crossbills hanging around the Madison Ave trailhead calling and giving g

1, under our feeders late morning. First winter finch in 6 years! -Scott and Denise Sent from my Verizon, Samsung Galaxy smartphone

I came home from work today and in the lower level of deciduous trees along my driveway, I found a group of Red Crossbills flitting between these trees and 2 very tall Eastern White Pine trees. The gr

One female green-winged teal was with the large flock of mallards at Hudson crossing this afternoon. Seen from the kayak launch trail. Alan Mapes Saratoga

At clear Echo Farms, just north of the intersection of Route 32 and Rugg Road, a black vulture was sitting on the tallest blue silo. I turned around for a better look, and it had been replaced by a Pe

This bird was seen today near the Rensselaer Tech park trail near Regeneron about 50 ft in. My friend said it was only white and blue with no brown or rust color. If anyone would like to go see if it

Within fifty or more common redpolls on the ground, I had a hoary redpoll right next to me and photographed it . . . Durkeetown Rd. southeast of Ft. Edward, Washington County. Clean unmarked under-tai

Today, I saw a meadowlark on the west side of Plum Rd (in the Town of Fort Edward, Washington County) near the intersections with New Swamp Rd. Sorry - No picture ***** Barb Putnam barbolink2 AT yahoo

this morning, Feb 1, I had a flyover flock of about a dozen red crossbills about 0.1 miles up the red trail from the blueberry hill west trailhead, and subsequently heard a small flock near the first

I drove up to Northumberland on Sunday in search of Snow Buntings and Horned Larks. I didn’t find any in the place where I found them in abundance a few weeks ago, on Stonebridge near Ballard Road, so

today I checked several previously (and some quite recently) noted locations for crossbills and despite searching carefully, found none. This includes Rudy Chase Drive in Glenville, behind the Clifton

Daniel and I watched a beautiful adult Iceland Gull (kumlieni) at the Crescent Power Plant in Cohoes this afternoon. We’ve been stopping at various places along the river for a couple weekends now loo

Pair of RB Mergansers continue this morning just below the Federal dam on the Hudson, as seen from the park at the end of Tibbits Avenue in Green Island. Nice find yesterday by Craig D. Tom Williams C

Details below on how to connect to our February meeting, on Birding the West Indies with Gregg Recer Birding the West Indies Gregg Recer The West Indies comprises hundreds of islands spread throughout

This afternoon, January 30, Denise and I birded the farmlands of Northumberland in Saratoga County; highlights include a flock of 500 - 1,000 snow buntings near the intersection of King Rd and Homeste