Monthly Archives: December 2020

Today I covered my sector of the Monticello CBC. This was my 20th year doing the count. It was a great day with temps in the low twenties, but no wind. It got sunny for a while at mid day … Continue reading →

After failing to find the Shrike again this morning I headed to the Rondout Reservoir. I hadn’t been there since last week and Matt Zeitler mentioned there was plenty of waterfowl yesterday. I was pleasantly surprised to see quite a … Continue reading →

I worked my way around the northeastern portion of the county this morning. I found a decent number of birds at the Rondout Reservoir, but little else. Keeping with my usual routine, I worked my way through the grassland areas … Continue reading →

This morning I got an call from birding bud Bruce Nott informing me a post had just come out that a LECONTE’S SPARROW had just been found at Croton Point Park in Westchester County. I told him I’d be there … Continue reading →

This morning I was up at 3 am and headed south shortly afterward. I was heading for a small suburb of Philadelphia called Media. There has been a TUNDRA BEAN-GOOSE present there for the last several days. This bird comes … Continue reading →

I headed up county this morning to see what might have changed with our first significant storm of the winter. It seems that Sullivan County had just about the same 14 inches that we did here at the house. If … Continue reading →

This morning we awoke to 14 inches of pure white snow. After a little clean up, the birds engulfed the feeders. To catch up on the last few days, bird wise, here’s what went on for me at least. The … Continue reading →

After three miserable days, I am finally back on line with a new hard drive. A big plus is that thanks to a great tech at Krist in Monticello, most of my data was retrieved. It turns out there is … Continue reading →

You may have noticed I haven’t followed up to my most recent post. On Sunday, my Computer hard drive fried. The computer was a total loss. As far as I know, I’ve lost everything. They worked on my computer extensively … Continue reading →

This morning I headed to Neversink to see if I might relocate the Hoary Redpoll. No such luck. I then headed to the Rondout Reservoir to see what was happening there. Once again I drove slowly down the road watching … Continue reading →