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A Green Monday

Posted on Jan 12, 2015

A Green Monday

We talked a lot about the cold and the snow lately so here’s some magical, ethereal green for your Monday courtesy of RTPI Affiliate Sean Graesser in Costa Rica. It is brimming with life up, down, and all around.

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We Didn’t Expect This!

Posted on Jan 11, 2015

We Didn’t Expect This!

Winter Birding Forecast #3 is brought to you by Audubon Connecticut in partnership with the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. Last time we told you to “Expect the Unexpected”, but we certainly didn’t expect this.  A Couch’s Kingbird was spotted for the first time ever in New York and it happens that this bird has been hanging out in the West Village on Lower Manhattan for several weeks before it was identified as this rare and spectacular flycatcher that should be in Texas or Mexico right now.  If a Couch’s Kingbird can hang out undiscovered for several weeks on Manhattan...

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Male Cardinal Liftoff

Posted on Jan 10, 2015

Male Cardinal Liftoff

Here’s liftoff of a male Northern Cardinal during a recent snowfall. Get out there this weekend and enjoy the snowy world, Chautauqua County! We will see you on the trails of our glistening landscape.

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Northern Cardinals in the Snow

Posted on Jan 7, 2015

Northern Cardinals in the Snow

I photographed this pair of Northern Cardinals feeding on a cold and snowy afternoon yesterday, their colors piercing the dull and dark January landscape. All sorts of birds are moving off the snow-covered and frozen earth to feed in the trees on berries and seeds. Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator

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Winter Bird Forecast – We Didn’t Expect This!

Posted on Jan 6, 2015

Winter Bird Forecast – We Didn’t Expect This!

Here’s our latest Winter Bird Forecast with Audubon Connecticut, our partners in the Audubon Alliance for Coastal Waterbirds which we are gearing up for more and more every day. But right now the waters are freezing and the birds in our landscapes are changing rapidly!

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