Indigo Bunting. Image by Steve Rappaport.

Field Notes

Monthly Bird Walk Archive

Our monthly bird walks (which we typically hold on the third Saturday of each month) cover a wide variety of meadow, marshland, seashore, and forested habitats. Through these walks, we visit seasonal birding hotspots, including winter nesting sites and migration corridors, where all kinds of birds can be found. Use the archive to revisit past bird walks and learn about some of the places we frequently visit. While you’re here, be sure to sign up for an upcoming bird walk!

2023

September at Fahnestock State Park, School Mountain Road and Wetlands

May – June Notable Sightings

April at West Point Foundry Park

March at Croton Point Park

February Eagle Watch at Boscobel and Shawangunk Grasslands

2022

November at Stony Kill Farm

October at Glynwood Farm

September at Hubbard Lodge

July at Constitution Marsh

June at Glynwood Farm

April at West Point Foundry Cove Preserve

March at Croton Point Park

February at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge

January at Jones Beach State Park

2021

November at Stony Kill Farm

October at Glynwood Farm

September at Hubbard Lodge

June at Indian Brook Road

April at West Point Foundry Cove

March at Croton Point Park

February at Little Stony Point

January at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge

2020

October at Glynwood Farm

September at Hubbard Lodge

2019

November at West Point Foundry Preserve

October at Constitution Marsh

September at Glynwood Farm

August at Granite Mountain

July at Sunken Mine Road

June at Glynwood Farm

April at Constitution Marsh

March at West Point Foundry Cove Preserve

February at Little Stony Point

January at Shawangunk Grasslands National Wildlife Refuge

2018

November at Canopus Lake, Fahnestock State Park

October at Glynwood Farm

September at Long Dock Park, Beacon

August at West Point Foundry Cove Preserve

July at Taconic Outdoor Education Center Duck Pond

Notable Sightings

October 2023 – February 2024

July – October 2023

May – June 2023

December 2022 – April 2023

September – November 2022

August 2022

May 2022

January – December 2021

Winter 2021

Birdathon

Launched in 1998 by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and the National Audubon Society, Birdathon is a 24-hour tally of bird species.

Each Spring, teams of PHASers participate in a friendly competition to see which team can identify the most bird species in our region, heading out into meadows, woods, lakes, marshes, towns, roadsides, parks—and just about any other place one could think of—to identify by sight or sound, the birds present at that location. Birdathon is a fundraising event for PHAS, a data-collecting exercise for science, and a tremendous amount social fun.  The information we gather is available to us, the public, and scientists to help answer both basic questions about the year-to-year health of bird populations and better understand the more far-reaching effects that climate change may be having on resident or migratory bird species.

2023 Results

2022 Results

2021 Results

2020 Results

Stories and Photos by PHAS Board Members

A Fox at the Feeder by Pete Salmansohn

August Shore Birds Photos By Kyle Bardwell

Reporting From Puffin-Land in Mid-Coast Maine by Pete Salmansohn

Summer Birds, Gardens and Poetry by Leslie Mott

Wood Warblers by Kyle Bardwell

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Black-bellied Plover, Dunlin, and Sanderling. Image by Jon Erickson.