For The Birds

By Brian Kluepfel The late Supreme Court Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg said, “Fight for the things that you care about, but do so in a way that others will join you.” I think that is the guiding principle of the

By Brian Kluepfel Sometimes, we feel powerless to make a dent in the world’s problems, complex and overwhelming as they are. This year, however, in another bit of Citizen/Community Science, you can make a direct contribution to recording bird populations

By Brian Kluepfel This Saturday birders from around New York will converge on rivers, lakes, ponds and shorelines of the Empire State, from Lake Erie to the Long Island Sound, immersing themselves in the counting of ducks, loons, geese, swans

By Brian Kluepfel Birding can take on many aspects: observing birds outdoors, marveling at photographs of birds and reading accounts of avian-obsessed adventurers of days gone by. It all depends upon your fancy. This month, you’ve got a wealth of

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

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

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

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