Rob sez:  Highlight during a quick trip around the CF this morning were a pair of BLACK VULTURES–my first August

A fun, low-keyed fund-raiser for Allendale's Fell House, that stately white mansion just down the street from the Celery Farm

    From the Butterfly Garden…

   This is a great time for butterflies. Saw this Spicebush Swallowtail on Ironweed by the CF late yesterday. Also

   I wrote about Northern Flickers for my column in The Record and Herald News today. The flicker here was

I have found that what you think you know about Screech Owls is often not quite true. For example, from

    These blue berries are along the trail at the Celery Farm these days  — we even saw them on

  Ron Fanning reports:"An Adult SORA was found along No Name Culvet (by the pipe-looking toward the main lake) this

   We counted 11 Common Nighthawks flying over the Warden's Watch last evening at 7:20 pm. Other highlights: Chimney Swifts,

  Rob reports: "The highlight during a quick walk around the CF this morning was a CANADA WARBLER along Warbler