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As seems to happen so many times, the gobblers were extremely active up to and including the last week in April. Then, just as if they had the opening...

I was asked recently to do a presentation on birds for a class of juniors and seniors at Salamanca High School. Over the years I’ve done many bird pre...

The morning sun beamed down from a pure blue sky unmarred by the shadow of a single cloud. The golden light shined with gentle benevolence on streams,...

Judging by Jim Eckstrom’s State & Union column in the Jan. 27 edition of the Olean Times Herald, he’s become a birder. Jim is the editor of the paper ...

Call it my Ralphie moment. You know the scene in “A Christmas Story” in which Ralphie and Randy are in Higbee’s department store to see Santa? The mot...

When I was growing up there was a pond near our house. I decided that I was going to take up fishing and that pond was where I was going to start. My ...

This year, over 1,800 pheasants will be released at nine locations in Allegany County, open to public hunting. There will be a total of 500 birds rele...

What’s in a name? Not much when it comes to birds. Consider the name “seagull.” It may not be surprising that people around here use the term seagull ...

For those of us living in Cattaraugus and Allegany counties, spring bird migration is pretty much over by the time the fireflies begin appearing over ...

When you’re creaky and squeak around the hinges you seldom enjoy a sound night’s sleep. Some tendon, joint or other tissue starts squawking and you to...

When I read in the Olean Times Herald that three successive wet springs meant fewer wild turkeys — and presumably fewer turkey hunters — I started pla...

There are lots of good reasons to participate in bird counts. For one, bird counts promote citizen science. For another, bird counts help spot populat...

This has been a strange spring, colder than most, but especially cold in the states to the south. Snow, ice, frosts and rain have held back spring a m...

In the last column I revealed that if I had just stayed home I would have seen more birds than I had after driving all over the countryside — and it h...

It brings me joy on early spring mornings to hear the raucous choir of wild birds that are migrating through Western New York or building their summer...

There is a comical reality about birding that is perhaps best depicted in a cartoon that appeared in The New Yorker magazine years ago. In the cartoon...

Ordinarily I don’t pay much attention to Daylight Savings Time. It comes and it goes, and I adjust my clocks and that’s about it. But this year is dif...

Let the show begin! Despite the winter setback late last week, strong southwest winds and unseasonably warm temperatures sped up the arrival of some o...