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This weekend marks the beginning of the 2022 Great Backyard Bird Count, a joint project of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, National Audubon Society an...

With few exceptions, it’s been a lackluster couple of months for local birding. Usually at this time of the year we expect to see a few species of win...

While we never received any reports in the Southern Tier of sick or dead song birds afflicted with an unknown disease in nearby Pennsylvania and other...

From a purely financial point of view, my 20 acres of land has very little economic value. In other words, there’s no timber, oil or gas. Most of it w...

According to a joint statement released by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the Cornell University College of Veterinary Medicine regarding the myst...

We’re fortunate in Cattaraugus County to have access to large tracts of public lands, but every once in a while I may happen to find myself walking on...

Nature conservation organizations in the region are encouraging residents to join them in following the recommendation of the U.S. Geological Survey t...

OSWEGO (TNS) — Four piping plover chicks have hatched at Sandy Island Beach State Park in Oswego County, marking the second time this summer that a pa...

The alarm blared and I turned wearily over. Was it 4 a.m. already? I’d just gotten to bed it seemed and I had a nap the previous day. Yet, I didn’t fe...

It’s spring gobbler season once again. Good grief. It’s a fact few spring turkey hunters make it through the entire season without missing many mornin...

Perhaps the most entertaining aspects of spring gobbler season involve the neverending series of mistakes my friends and I make every spring. This yea...

As I’ve said here before, May is the month that many of us look forward to all year. The reason is that, generally speaking, May is when our most colo...

BELMONT — The first bath of 800 pheasant chicks have been received at the Allegany County Public Safety Facility and Jail. These will be raised in the...

You’d fallen exhausted into bed the night before. After getting up at 4 a.m., experiencing another fruitless hunt, then working all day, you came home...

The wind gave a howl and deposited a big clump of snow dead center down my neck from the overhanging maple limb above me. I cringed and shuddered, bel...

One of the great aspects of life in our corner of the Southern Tier is the closeness of nature we enjoy. We never know what we might see in our back y...

ALLEGANY — About a month ago, friends in Allegany told Dan Jordan of a large, all-white bird in the area. The photographer and raptor enthusiast had b...

Here today and gone tomorrow — and that’s if you’re lucky. I’m referring to winter birds generally, and winter finches specifically. Unlike spring and...