Chirps and Cheeps

Posts for General Observations

2/14/2024	An Overwintering Belted Kingfisher
2/1/2024	A Few Winter Birds
1/8/2024	An Entertaining Glaucous Gull
12/27/2023	A Cool Junco
12/22/2023	Late Migrants or Overwintering Birds?
11/26/2023	Who's Looking at You?
11/16/2023	Roughies Are Back!
1/11/2023	Orchard Park Snow Goose
8/18/2020	A Lesser Black-backed Gull on the Beach
8/12/2020	Close-up of an Eastern Wood-Pewee
7/29/2020	End of July Sightings
7/11/2020	Looking for Babies
6/30/2020	More Breeding Records
6/16/2020	Breeding Bird Atlas III Project
4/13/2020	Free to Bird!
2/3/2020	Gathering Birds
9/5/2019	Mixed Molt Male
8/29/2019	At Least a Fish
8/27/2019	Osprey - What a Sucker!
8/25/2019	Beach Birds
8/17/2019	Orchard Orioles at Woodlawn
8/8/2019	A Few Shorebirds Showed Up
8/7/2019	Breeding Towhees at Woodlawn
8/4/2019	More Wyoming County Birding
7/19/2019	Ontario Vacation 2019
7/5/2019	Some Wyoming County Birding
6/4/2019	Just Some Fun Southtown Birding
5/3/2019	An Easter Whip-poor-will at Forest Lawn Cemetery
5/2/2019	The Magical Month of May
4/30/2019	End of April Birds
4/25/2019	The Magic of Migration
4/14/2019	BOS April Count
4/13/2019	Cranes at Conewango and a Long-eared at Tifft
4/8/2019	American White Pelican and a Swainson's Hawk
4/6/2019	Early April Finds
4/1/2019	April Fools Snow Birds
3/29/2019	Trumpeter Swan vs Tundra Swan
3/14/2019	Two Nice Surprises
3/13/2019	Migration Movements
2/27/2019	Finally Greater White-fronted Geese
2/20/2019	A Couple of Hawk Happenings
2/12/2019	February's Saw-whet and Other Sightings
1/29/2019	Some Mid-January Birds
1/15/2019	A Wyoming County Nemesis Conquered
1/9/2019	I See Gulls
1/2/2019	First of Year Birds
12/29/2018	Some December Birding
11/25/2018	A Tufted Duck at La Salle Park
10/25/2018	Franklin's Gull in Hamburg
10/19/2018	Little Gull Photo Shoot
9/24/2018	Clay-colored Sparrow at Times Beach NP
9/14/2018	Erie County Forster's Tern
9/12/2018	Fall Migration
9/2/2018	American Golden-Plovers Visit Buffalo
8/30/2018	Red Knot on Bird Island Pier
5/1/2018	A Strange Spring
3/13/2018	Merlin and Flicker Posers
3/5/2018	Erie County Greater White-fronted Geese
2/28/2018	Tundra Swans on the Move
2/14/2018	Green-tailed Towhee, a Western Wanderer
2/3/2018	Trumpeter Swans, Horned Larks, and Pintails
1/28/2018	End of January Sightings
1/22/2018	Bohemian Waxwing and Southtowns Birding
1/3/2018	Great Cormorant on Irondequoit Bay
12/8/2017	Inca Dove - a NYS 1st Record
10/23/2017	A Birthday Ruffed Grouse
10/19/2017	A White-eyed Vireo at Sturgeon Point
9/19/2017	White-eyed Vireo!
9/16/2017	A Whimbrel Visits!
9/9/2017	Golden-winged Warbler at Woodlawn
9/8/2017	Back in Town and Shorebirds Found
8/12/2017	A Brief Stop by a Willet
11/4/2016	BOS Cape May Trip and Gray Kingbird
11/3/2016	October Birding
11/2/2016	September Birding
11/1/2016	August Birding
10/31/2016	July Birding
10/29/2016	June Birding
10/28/2016	May Birding
10/24/2016	April Birding
10/21/2016	March Birding
10/20/2016	February Birding
1/31/2016	Winter in the Adirondacks
1/28/2016	A Couple of Uncommon January Sightings
1/24/2016	Some Winter Color
1/20/2016	Heading Eastward
1/18/2016	First of Year Birding
1/2/2016	Christmas Bird Count - East Aurora
12/30/2015	Winter Birding
11/20/2015	Late Fall Birding
11/7/2015	Cattle Egret - 2015
11/5/2015	A Red-tailed Hawk and a Barred Owl
10/30/2015	Windy Niagara
10/18/2015	Rufous Hummingbird in Southerntier
10/12/2015	It's Sparrow Season
9/22/2015	More Local Migrants
9/17/2015	Sharpie vs Coop
9/13/2015	Rainy Day Migrants
9/5/2015	Third Visit to the ADKs
8/27/2015	Red-headed Woodpeckers and Rails at Montezuma
8/21/2015	A Few Sights at Batavia WWTP
8/12/2015	Raptors Seen Here and There
8/2/2015	Shorebird Field Trip at Montezuma
7/16/2015	Looking for Shorebirds
7/12/2015	Back to Allegany County
7/8/2015	Grasshopper Sparrow Sighting
7/4/2015	Adirondack Birding
6/10/2015	Sedge Wren at Three Rivers WMA
6/2/2015	Acadian Flycatcher and Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Nest Activity
5/31/2015	Catching Up - Spring Warblers
5/24/2015	Southerntier Birding
5/7/2015	A Warbling Vireo at Home and an Olive-sided Flycatcher at Forest Lawn
4/25/2015	Varied Thrush in NYS and a Barred Owl
4/23/2015	An Afternoon in Dunkirk
4/19/2015	Shorebird Arrivals
4/18/2015	Pine Siskins and First Warblers
4/16/2015	American Bittern and Migration Beginnings
4/14/2015	Along the River
4/10/2015	Early Bird Tiffting and an Eastern Towhee
4/6/2015	From Dunkirk to Hamlin
4/2/2015	Another Hawk Watch
3/29/2015	Spring Arrivals and Pine Siskins
3/26/2015	A Eurasian Wigeon, Northern Saw-whet Owl, Ross's Goose, and a Merlin
3/24/2015	Evening Grosbeaks and a Hawk Watch
3/16/2015	March Raptors
3/8/2015	Recent Meanderings
2/22/2015	MORE Bohemian Waxwings!
2/7/2015	Iroquois Birding and My Very Own Screech-Owl
2/6/2015	A Roughie and a Kestrel
1/30/2015	A Red-headed and a Red-shouldered
1/24/2015	Winter Beauties: From Songbirds to Raptors
1/23/2015	Rochester Rarities: King Eider and Yellow-headed Blackbird
1/17/2015	A Southerntier Birding Drive
1/15/2015	Epitaph to a Ross's Goose
12/31/2014	My Big Year
12/22/2014	Purple Sandpiper in Irondequoit
12/11/2014	A Common Redpoll Arrives!
12/4/2014	Lark Sparrow Revisited, Another Snowy Owl, and a Red-tailed
11/16/2014	Lark Sparrow and Snowy Owl in Hamlin
11/10/2014	Cattle Egret in Hamlin
11/9/2014	Eared Grebe, American Avocet, and Glossy Ibises at Montezuma NWR
11/7/2014	Evening Grosbeak in Wilson
11/2/2014	Some Random Sightings
10/24/2014	Northern Saw-whet Owl Banding Experience
10/23/2014	Finally - a Greater White-fronted Goose and a Northern Shrike
10/19/2014	Hamlin Wild Goose Chase
10/11/2014	BOS Count at Beaver Meadow
10/5/2014	A Windy River Watch
10/2/2014	Marsh Survey and Batavia WWTP Birding
9/18/2014	Merlin Pair at Birdsong
9/15/2014	Red Phalarope at Hamlin Beach
9/12/2014	Yard Migrants - Part 2
9/7/2014	Yard Migrants - Part 1
8/29/2014	Some Recent Sightings
8/22/2014	Batavia and Marsh Checks
7/28/2014	Ruff at Tonawanda WMA
7/26/2014	More at Montezuma
7/24/2014	Parakeets and Phalaropes
7/17/2014	Virginia Rail and Gallinule Chicks
7/8/2014	American Avocets at Dunkirk - an Annual Event?
7/6/2014	Some Summer Stops
6/22/2014	Recent June Outings
5/22/2014	Yellow-bellied Flycatcher and More Warblers at Tifft
5/12/2014	Adirondack Birding
5/7/2014	Warbler Mania
5/6/2014	Southerntier Birding - Boblinks, Upland Sandpipers, and More
5/4/2014	Purple Sandpiper in Niagara Falls
4/27/2014	Year Firsts: Yellow Warbler in Batavia and Savannah Sparrow in Clarence
4/23/2014	Evening Walk at Tifft
4/22/2014	Black-throated Green Warbler at Forest Lawn
4/18/2014	Season Firsts: Warblers and a Gray Catbird
4/14/2014	More Migrants Along the Waterfront
4/2/2014	Braddock Bay Day
4/1/2014	Barred Owls
3/25/2014	Saw-whet Fallout, Snow Geese, Tundras, Another Shrike
3/22/2014	A Saw-whet, Another Shrike, and Horned Larks
3/21/2014	A Photogenic Shrike, a Ross's Goose, and a Eurasian Wigeon
3/19/2014	Birding Mendon Ponds and Grebes at Dunkirk Harbor
3/10/2014	Surprise Snowy Harassed by Young Eagles
2/23/2014	A Mixed Bag: Waterfowl, Ravens, and Owls
2/13/2014	Songbirds and a Great Horned
2/12/2014	Rough-legged Hawk, Northern Harrier, and Short-eared Owls
2/9/2014	Lapland Longspurs, a Red-shouldered, and Another Snowy
1/30/2014	A Raptor Kind of Day
1/19/2014	Black Vultures on the BOS Waterfowl Count
1/16/2014	A Northern Mocking Bird, Northern Shrikes, and a Red-headed Woodpecker
1/12/2014	Showing a Snowy
1/11/2014	Unusual Winter Visitors and Some Regulars
12/28/2013	CBC - Oak Orchard
12/26/2013	Belted Kingfisher Along the River
12/25/2013	More Owls
12/15/2013	Wilson Christmas Bird Count
12/3/2013	Snowy Owl in Batavia
10/13/2013	BOS October Count
9/24/2013	Pectoral Sandpipers at Sod Farms and BWWTP
9/22/2013	Long-tailed Duck and American Golden-plovers Near Times Beach
9/15/2013	BOS Fall Migrant Field Trip
9/13/2013	A Little Warbler Fallout
9/6/2013	Reading and Reporting Great Egret Wing Tags
8/25/2013	BOS Shorebird Field Trip
8/18/2013	Several Carolina Wren Sightings
7/23/2013	Eared Grebe in Breeding Plumage
7/17/2013	Kestrel Release
6/17/2013	A Cooperative Grasshopper Sparrow
6/13/2013	Injured American Kestrel
5/10/2013	Back to the Glossy Ibis and No Laughing Gull
4/22/2013	Hawk Watch and Owl Update
4/18/2013	Red-throated Loon in Dunkirk and White-throated Sparrows Return
4/7/2013	Big Day - Lens Test
3/31/2013	Catching Up
1/27/2013	White-winged Crossbills - A Better Look
1/10/2013	Flock of Redpolls
1/5/2013	Redpolls and Waxwings
12/29/2012	CBC - East Aurora
10/26/2012	Chirps and Cheeps Featured in The Buffalo News!
9/24/2012	Angola Hike and MAYBE a Connecticut Warbler
8/2/2012	Mother Son Hike Down 18 Mile Creek
6/28/2012	Bluebirds Prevail!
6/11/2012	Lakeside Cemetery - Kamikaze Oriole
4/16/2012	April in Angola
9/25/2011	Juvenile American Robin
9/13/2011	Eye Candy: the Magnolia Warbler
9/7/2011	Elusive Male Hooded Warbler and a Blackpoll
8/17/2011	Mutations in the Bird World
8/8/2011	Mrs. H. Warbler Bathes Nearby
7/8/2011	Dust Baths - Really?
6/30/2011	Parenting: Devoted Woodpeckers Cardinals, and Yellow Warblers
6/20/2011	Yellow Warbler Nesting
6/16/2011	House Wrens Housekeeping
6/5/2011	Eastern Bluebirds - Nesting Behavior
5/6/2011	Flicker Frolic
2/24/2011	Traipsing After a Red-tailed Hawk
2/21/2011	Life and Death
1/25/2011	Mystery Solved!