As you can see from the photo above, 2008 started on

      Thought this would be a wise way to end 2007.   It has been quite a year,

   I  had the Celery Farm to myself on my Sunday morning walk, or to be more accurate, I shared

To read the story I did for The Sunday Record, click  here.

    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.