May 27, 2013: Birding Braddock Bay and Rochester Area

 Banded Common Grackle and Braddock Bay

Island Cottage and Firehouse Woods

 Purple Flowers

 Baby Killdeer

 Blackpoll Warbler

 Red-Eyed Vireo

 Cedar Waxwing

 Black Billed Cuckoo

 Dunlin (Niagara County)

 Eastern Kingbird (Niagara County)

American Crow nest at home across the street

May 11, 2013: Great Warbler Day at Firehouse Woods (Greece, New York)

 Yellow Rumped Warbler

 Above and Below: Female and Male Black Throated Blue Warbler

 Palm Warbler

American Redstart

 Nashville Warbler

Northern Parula

 Great Crested Flycatcher

 Female American Redstart

West Spit -Braddock Bay

 Red-Breasted Merganser

 Black Throated Green Warbler

 Bald Eagle

Magnolia Warbler

May 4, 2013: Birding in the Rochester area and Iroquois NWR

 Mourning Dove nest at Braddock Bay Bird Observatory

Island Cottage Woods

 Chimney Swift

 Yellow Rumped Warbler

 Above and Below: Veery

 Canada Goose

 Above and Below: Magnolia Warbler

 Ruby-Crowned Kinglet

 Yellow-Rumped Warbler

 American Robin

Rail watch with Chuck Rosenberg at Iroquois NWR

 above and below: Virginia Rail

 Above and Below:  American Bittern

 Sandhill Cranes

Swamp Sparrow

April 21, 2013: Birding Braddock Bay Area and Iroquois NWR

Braddock Bay Area:

 Brown Thrasher

 A variety of Bonaparte's gulls

 Caspian Terns

Snake (at Iroquois)

April 14, 2013: Birding Rochester Area

First, owl watching at Braddock Bay Owl Woods was very successful!

 Saw-Whet Owl

 Above and Below:  Long-Eared Owl

 Red-Tailed Hawk banded

Docksiders nearby:

 Blue-Winged Teal

 a group of Ring Billed and Bonaparte's Gulls

 Greater Yellowlegs

Tinker Nature Park - Henrietta, NY

 Yellow-Rumped Warbler

 Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker

Below: Great Horned Owl adult and babies

Rusty Blackbird (back home)