Rusty Blackbird Pair
Here is a Throwback Thursday to a Rusty Blackbird male and female in the winter snow looking for food at a bird feeder after a storm. The male is the darker individual and the female is the lighter bird. Please remember that no matter where you live it is absolutely vital to enter any Rusty Blackbirds you see into eBird, especially during the 2015 Rusty Blackbird Spring Migration Blitz! See more information on how you can help save the species here on our website.
Read MoreSnowy Forest and Landscape
Let’s take a moment to admire and soak in the snowy forests and landscapes surrounding us in January. How can you not love the outdoors and being immersed in nature when it looks like this? Our world can look so picture perfect when carefully framed and it’s our collective responsibility to keep it that way outside the margins and underneath the snow. We may have just entered a very active weather period for snow in the Northeast! Could there be a historic monster on the way?
Read MoreJanuary Snowy Owl Update
This blog entry is a companion to the Winter Bird Forecasts brought to you by Audubon Connecticut and the Roger Tory Peterson Institute of Natural History. Be sure to check out Winter Bird Forecast #3! As we enter the New Year we in the Mid-Atlantic and New England have been feeling mostly below-average temperatures as the weather finally reflects the climate more than it has. Snow cover is certainly starting to shape up over the landscape and birds like the Snowy Owl are now camouflaged against our earth and skies. I wanted to see where we were in this winter’s Snowy Owl irruption,...
Read MoreWhere’s the Snow?!
After above-average to historic snowfall in November it has been a slow late fall and early winter season! Western New York saw some absurd snow totals early in the autumn but it has been tough lately with this latest low pressure system coming over us, the southwest flow dragging temperatures to the 50s, pouring down rain and melting snow. Scenes like these have been difficult to find for many places in the Northeast, but we in the Chautauqua-Allegheny region will be feeling an arctic blast with frigid temperatures coming this week. Snowfall will return thanks to the Great Lakes and a...
Read MoreBelted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon)
While we may be looking for more of that “winter” feeling and some seasonal snowfall, especially in the Chautauqua-Allegheny region for our winter trails cell phone tour, this Belted Kingfisher (Megaceryle alcyon) was enjoying an open pond to fish in. After chatting with me for a little bit, rattling away, it went back to its business, looking for prey and then up to the sky. Perhaps it was wondering where all that snow is… Scott Kruitbosch Conservation & Outreach Coordinator
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