By Brian Kluepfel
By Brian Kluepfel At our recent New York State Birders’ Conference in Tarrytown – many kudos to Saw Mill River Audubon for putting that big show together – one of the more interesting presentations came from Tom Stephenson. It was all
Read MoreBy Brian Kluepfel There’s a stir in the local birding community whenever a rare or off-course avian is sighted. When a white pelican shows up in Pelham Bay, for instance, e-Bird blows up, Rare Bird Alerts are sent out and
Read MoreBy Brian Kluepfel To paraphrase an old sports joke: I went to a rodeo, and a birding trip broke out. Thus was my three-day adventure in the least crowded state in the lower 48, Wyoming, and its capital, the bustling
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By Brian Kluepfel Paul McCartney is a wonderful musician, but he was likely wrong about blackbirds singing in the dead of night. They’re probably asleep at that juncture, but then again, with all his gold records I’ll allow Sir Paul
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By Brian Kluepfel I was excited to paddle in the Bronx River Alliance’s (BRA) annual flotilla down New York City’s only freshwater river. The weather last Saturday was acceptable, although it was 42 degrees when I left Ossining. We’d had
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By Brian Kluepfel April has arrived with a spaghetti splatter of weather patterns befitting climate change, but there is much to feel positive about in the birding world and with Saw Mill River Audubon (SMRA) in general. SMRA held
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This is a short summary of Saw Mill River Audubon’s 2022 Woodcock Walk. By Brian Kluepfel The arrival and the courtship dance of the American woodcock is an unmistakable sign of spring. I decided in March 2022 that it
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The Case Against Caged Birds By Brian Kluepfel A big celebrity news item in December 2016 was the birth of Mick Jagger’s eighth child, Deveraux Octavian Basil Jagger. Mick will turn 80 this year, and even in his
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By Brian Kluepfel The last Carolina parakeet died 104 years ago. Perhaps fittingly, it died in a zoo. Humans had wiped out all the wild birds of this species several years before. On this cold winter’s day, I pay
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By Brian Kluepfel The state bird of Tennessee is not the Nashville warbler, nor is it the Tennessee warbler. It is the northern mockingbird. This was among the factoids I garnered whilst attending the American Birding Association’s Bird of
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