While there are still two white rumped- sandpipers remaining, along with a handful of least and semi palmated sandpipers, the party is just about over. The water left in the fields doesn’t amount to m

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After having a good look at the photo, and consulting others, I’ve added the upper left bird as a LBBG as well. It’s a 1st year immature bird. The contrasting darker mantle plus the barely visible dar

As the reports from what looks to be a good year for century runners despite the heat come in, this is a reminder that the best way to get a composite count of all the Sora cues you saw in a given day

A Lesser Black backed Gull flew by Coeymans Landing going north, just as the storm arrived, around 6 PM. I’ll post some photos on the EBird checklist when I get to download them. Rich Guthrie

Hey Thursday birders! Sunday the 22nd is our annual Quest For Ceruleans, so let's meet at Schodack Island SP at 8:00 to scout for the trip. Avoid the weekend crowd - I think I'll have a big turnout th

All of the Century Run teams or individuals out yesterday (and we encountered a few of you) should send me your results for compiling and publication in Feathers. Please include the counties where you

Tom Williams and I just found a CLAY-COLORED SPARROW at the Truax Trail Barrens of the Albany Pine Bush. Tristan Lowery Albany

Several Whip poor Wills are “singing “ at Coeymans Hollow

Four flyover Common Nighthawks here in Colonie in the last half-hour. Tom & Colleen Williams Colonie

Currently 3 blank- billed dowitchers at Cohoes Flats. You fill in the blank. Larry Alden

Saratoga Lake showing no terms or Bonies this morning.

Scanning through 20 or so terns and gulls, I’m fairly confident that there are some if not several Arctic Terns in the group. They all are very distant but viewable from the pull out at Reilly Cove. S

Walking from the Whipple Bridge to the intersection with the yellow left arrow sign, I went left/east and had a Wilson’s warbler loudly and repeatedly singing. Another birder had found two of them, a

Found some Dunlin at Wrights Loop this morning in full breeding plumage. I could only make out half a dozen but subsequent reports indicate three times that. Also 40+ Least Sandpipers, several Semi-pa

I’m posting for a friend who is looking for someone to teach a birding class at Heldeberg Workshop in Voorheesville for grades 3-6 for the week of 7/11-7/15. The pay is $400, hours 8:40-12:15. If inte

I walked around Vischer Ferry Preserve this morning for about an hour and a half in the steady rain. I was mostly listening for warblers of which I counted 7 including Wilson's, Tennessee, Northern Wa

Good morning- a neighbor called with a surprise last night around 7:30pm, 3 eastern screech owlets in a small cedar tree behind her garage. They are on private property in the rear of a lot but I’m go

Sunday, May 22, SCHODACK ISLAND STATE PARK (Rensselaer County; morning) Coordinator: Naomi Lloyd 518-596-5964 naomi_kestrel@... Schodack Island State Park sits along the eastern shore of the Hudson Ri

At 10 a.m. this morning, we visited The Crossings in Colonie. The fields were flooded with water and with birds. Notables were Greater and Lesser Yellowlegs, Least Sandpipers, Solitary Sandpipers, a S