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This fine little fellow was on the path at the Rogers Center last week, and only grudgingly ceded his place to the lumbering biped with the camera.

He was quite aggressive, as behooves a small and probably tasty prey item during raptor migration.
Anyone out there care to fill me in on this creature’s identity?

He was about [...]

I was fortunate yesterday morning to get to go birding with Debbie and Harvey here in Hamilton. They showed me the best local birding site I’ve seen so far, a remnant marsh and impoundment barely 5 minutes from our place; Alison and I had glimpsed it from the road the other day, but it takes [...]

While Alison toiled away at her desk, I made another late-morning visit to the Rogers Center yesterday. I’ve decided that it’s a nice enough spot, reminiscent in many ways of the large city park in another Hamilton that served as my “home patch” for a couple of years. Canada Geese abound, and on a nice [...]

The astronomers would have us believe that autumn is a time, that long stretch of short days between the second equinox and the second solstice of the year. But they’re wrong, of course; culturally and emotionally, autumn has always been a place. And in North America, that place is anywhere Canada Geese set their wings [...]

The sun was barely peeking through the clouds when we took off from Syracuse this morning, but it was bright enough to illumine 4 long-legged shapes at the end of the runway. Phoenicopterus plasticus, by the looks of ‘em, and good for a doubletake as we headed west and home.