As I sat through the Ramsey count recap late Saturday afternoon, I was struck by a few things

     The annual Ramsey bird count came up with 81 species this year, just seven shy of the group’s

Efforts to find the Pacific loon along Greenwood Lake have come up empty.    At the north end of the

  The loon looks to be a common loon.   Other groups report a merlin, cedar waxwings, a pine siskin,

  Just past noon, Denise scanned the southern part of Monksville with her high-powered spotting scope and spotted a loon.

  These are Sean and Denise at Monksville in the early morning, plus a distant bluebird.    

Highlight of the morning  was a yellow-bellied sapsucker (below).    A bad Internet connection has prevented me from posting for

  We have been heading along  the back roads of Stonetown, with a touch of blue skies and a total

  We have split into two groups. I am with Sean and Denise.  We have been working the Monksville Reservoir.

   Here it is, not quite seven a.m. and not quite sun-up, and I am sitting in the A&P parking