birds

Among birders there’s something called “chasing a bird.” As I’ve written before, chasing a bird involves a birder learning of a rare or unusual bird —...

With spring in full swing and young animals more visible, state wildlife officials remind New Yorkers to appreciate wildlife from a safe distance and ...

WELLSVILLE — No chickens came home to roost Monday night after the village board called yet another hearing concerning the keeping of chickens within ...

Share in the joy of birds during the annual Great Backyard Bird Count (GBBC) and help make your community stronger for you and the birds. The 28th ann...

Our long winter nights are the perfect time for me to sort through thousands of images of people, places and wildlife that I’ve collected since gettin...

OLEAN — “Wattle” on down to the Olean Public Library at 1 p.m. Nov. 16 to visit with Mike Morton from Sundance Kids Farm and his terrific turkeys. Mor...

LAKE GEORGE (TNS) — The New York Department of Environmental Conservation and the Lake George Park Commission are teaming up to track double-crested c...

In the last column , I wrote about birding while cycling along Phase 1 of the Adirondack Rail Trail, which runs from Lake Placid to Saranac Lake. The ...

Ordinarily the drive from Olean to Lake Placid is less than seven hours, but it was already dark when I arrived on Sept. 18 after getting a late start...

Allegany photographer Dan Jordan sent us his latest great bald eagle image this week — this one of a local pair together along the Allegheny River des...

If you know anything about Oswego, New York, you know that its winters can be brutal — even by Upstate New York standards. Located on the very shoreli...

DELEVAN — Gooseneck Hill Waterfowl Sanctuary is holding their annual Wild Wing Festival on Aug. 25 from noon to 4 p.m. at the sanctuary at 5067 Townli...

As I mentioned in an earlier column, I’ve taken up cycling and I’ve spent the last few months relearning how to ride — you can forget the old adage th...

The canoe drifted around a corner of tall reeds surprising a great blue heron only 20 yards away. With an annoyed, raspy “Rauck!,” the great bird spra...

In my last column I wrote about my excitement at locating three nesting prothonotary warblers at Magee Marsh in Ohio over the Memorial Day Weekend. Pa...

If one thing has changed about the way that I travel by car, it’s my degree of planning. Until quite recently, I’d identify my destination and the rou...

Many things in life become popular, then fall away and are forgotten, only to become accepted again years later. There was a time when almost every hu...