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

  I thought I would kick off this day of blogging the Ramsey Christmas Bird Count with a quick post

  Another Mahwahite has responded to my article in The Friday Record about piebald deer (click to enlarge images).She writes:

   As an experiment, I will try to post to this blog during the Ramsey Christmas bird count tomorrow (Saturday),

  Just got an e-mail from a reader in Mahwah, who writes:   When I opened the local section of