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

       A friend of this blog gave me a tip about a white deer at the McFaul Environmental

   When I got home last night, I thought I would check the screech-cam monitor just to see if I