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Black-Capped Chickadee, Lake Placid, NY (13 December 2024). wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...
#birds #blackcappedchickadee #winterbirds #adirondackbirding #adirondackwildlife #AdirondackWildlife #chickadees
A small black, gray and white bird with a tan belly sits on a branch.
December 15, 2024 at 4:16 PM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #Petals&Perches: a Ruby-throated Hummingbird on milkweed. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-s...

#hummingbird #RubyThroatedHummingbird #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds
A small greenish bird is nectaring on a large pink flower. This is a Ruby-throated Hummingbird, a medium to long-distance migrant that spends winter in Central America. They usually arrive in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York in May.
April 21, 2026 at 8:45 AM
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The alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #WhatTheFlock. Here’s a little flock of Evening Grosbeaks. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#eveninggrosbeak #grosbeaks #grosbeak #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds
The image shows five yellow and grayish birds perched on a feeding station in winter. These are Evening Grosbeaks. Evening Grosbeaks breed in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York, but we are most apt to see them in winter at our birdfeeders.
April 21, 2026 at 8:48 AM
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For the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #Gulls, I offer this Ring-billed Gull, perched on a rock. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#ringbilledgull #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds
April 16, 2026 at 5:43 PM
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For the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #SpeciesParidae: a Tufted Titmouse on a winter day. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#TuftedTitmouse #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds #upstateNewYork
A grey bird with a light belly and a perky crest is sitting perched on a snow-covered railing. This is a Tufted Titmouse. It’s a year-round resident of the Adirondack Mountains in upstate New York, often coming to our feeders in winter,
April 26, 2026 at 6:33 PM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #SplashingAround. Here’s a Mallard, splashing around. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-s...

#mallard #duck #ducks #AdirondackDucks #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds
A duck with a glossy, iridescent green head and rich chestnut-brown breast is splashing around in the water. This is a male Mallard, having himself a nice bath in an oxbow of the Ausable River, near Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains.
April 22, 2026 at 8:28 AM
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For the alt #birdoftheday theme #silhouettes&shadows I submit this #pinewarbler, which also qualifies as #grounded.
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#eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #nature #wildlife #warblers #AdirondackMountains
A yellowish bird with an olive back and two prominent white wing bars is foraging on the ground. It’s sunny, so the bird is casting a shadow. I took this photo near Jones Pond in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
March 20, 2026 at 7:53 AM
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The alt #BirdOfThe Day theme is #WeatherWarriors. Here’s a Blue Jay, contemplating winter. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds #upstateNewYork #backyardbirds
A blue and grey bird with a perky blue crest is perched on a snow-covered branch. This is a Blue Jay, one of our year-round residents here in the Adirondacks of upstate New York. They breed on our property and come to our feeders in winter.
April 28, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #LandMeetsWater, I offer this #CommonLoon, nesting on the shore of a pond in the #AdirondackMountains of upstate New York. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #loons #ECK
The image shows a Common Loon pair. One of the loons is sitting on a nest on the shoreline, while the other bird is floating close by. This photo was taken on a large pond in the Adirondacks where I grew up.
March 18, 2026 at 7:13 AM
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For the #BirdOfTheDay theme #Migratory birds, I offer this attractive #Bobolink that travels 6,000 miles from South America to upstate New York. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK
A brown bird with a yellow belly is sitting on top of some goldenrod in a meadow. This is a female Bobolink. They breed in this hay meadow near Lake Placid in upstate New York. Bobolinks arrive on their breeding grounds in our part of the Adirondacks in early May. They leave for their long trip south in the last half of August.
March 22, 2026 at 8:55 AM
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Today’s #birdoftheday theme is #manmadeperch. So here’s a male Purple Finch on a pole. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#PurpleFinch #Finch #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds
A bird with raspberry red coloration on his upperparts, neck, head, and sides is perched on a pole, waiting for his turn at the sunflower seeds. This is a Purple Finch. The Purple Finch is a year-round resident for us, breeding mainly in conifer or mixed forests, the edges of bogs, and riparian corridors.
April 9, 2026 at 8:13 AM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #OpenBeak, I offer this Red-eyed Vireo, showing off his signature red eye. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#RedEyedVireo #Adirondackbirding #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #AdirondackBirds #birding #birds #nature #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #ADK
An olive-green and white bird with a red iris and gray crown is perched on a branch singing. This bird is known for its tireless, persistent, and very loud singing, which often drowns out the more melodious songs of neighboring birds. This is a summer bird for us. It’s a long-distance migrant, spending its winters in the Amazon basin of South America.
March 25, 2026 at 8:06 AM
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For today’s #BirdOfTheDay theme #weather, I submit this woe-begone Blue Jay in the snow.
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#BlueJay #Birds #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #nature #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #snow
A blue bird with a white chest and belly and perky blue crest is perched on a branch in a snow storm. This is a Blue Jay, a year-round resident in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Blue Jays are omnivores. They consume arthropods, acorns, soft fruits, seeds, birds’ eggs, nestlings, and small vertebrates. These birds are among our most faithful customers at winter feeders. This one was waiting for me to refill the feeders.
April 3, 2026 at 7:14 AM
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For the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #BirdOnAWire: A Veery singing on a wire. Video here: youtu.be/oMPMi0SfHrQ

#Veery #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds #upstateNewYork #nature
The image shows a brown bird on a wire. The bird is a Veery, a small thrush that gets its name from its song: a haunting series of “veer” notes descending in pitch. Veeries also have a variety of call notes, including whistles, squeals, and chatters. The photo is a still image taken from a video I filmed in late July in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York.
May 1, 2026 at 8:49 AM
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For the alt #birdoftheday theme #oneleg, I offer this Great Blue Heron. Essex County, New York (9 April 2023) wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#GreatBlueHeron #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #nature #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #Herons
A large grey-blue bird is sitting on a nest on one leg. This is a Great Blue Heron. They nest in colonies. Males arrive at the colony first and settle on nest sites; from there, they court passing females. Colonies can consist of 500 or more individual nests, with multiple nests per tree built 100 or more feet off the ground. This colony, which was on the edge of a small pond, had 14 nests.
March 26, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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The Alt #BirdOfTheDay theme is #BugCatchers. Here’s a #BlackThroatedBlueWarbler, looking very well-fed. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #nature #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK
A small bird with distinctive midnight blue, black, and white plumage is sitting on a branch against a bright green background of leaves. This is a Black-throated Blue Warbler. This photo was taken on the John Brown Farm Trails near Lake Placid in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The Black-throated Blue Warbler is a wood warbler that breeds in the northeastern US and southeastern Canada and spends the winter in the Caribbean. These birds subsist mainly on insects during breeding season. Their menu during this time includes spiders, crane flies, moths, and caterpillars. Like many other warbler species, Black-throated Blue Warblers search for prey primarily on the surface of vegetation. This sets them apart from bark gleaners (like Black-and-white Warblers or Red-breasted Nuthatches) and flycatchers (birds that fly out to catch flying insects, like American Redstarts). Black-throated Blue Warblers take prey mainly from the undersides of leaves. They concentrate their foraging on deciduous foliage, with coniferous vegetation consistently ignored
March 22, 2026 at 9:10 AM
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The #BirdOfTheDay theme today is #FeederFriends. Here’s a Red-breasted Nuthatch on a peanut feeder. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#redbreastednuthatch #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds
A small bird with a blue-gray body and cinnamon-brown breast is perched on a peanut feeder. This is a Red-breasted Nuthatch, photographed in our backyard near Lake Placid, in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. The Red-breasted Nuthatch is one of two nuthatch species found in the Adirondack Park. It is most frequently seen in conifer forests or mixed woodland with a strong coniferous component, in contrast to our other nuthatch – the slightly larger White-breasted Nuthatch, which prefers deciduous forests.
April 17, 2026 at 9:21 AM
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For the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #Waders, I offer this American Bittern. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#AmericanBittern #wetlands #AdirondackWetlands #wetland #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds
A brown bird with long legs is wading in the shallow edge of a pond. This is an American Bittern. This bird spends its winters on coastal plains in the southern US and further south in Mexico and Bermuda. It leaves for its breeding grounds in the northern US and southern Canada in early spring. It usually arrives in the Adirondack region by late April or early May.
April 17, 2026 at 9:23 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #AdulsWithChicks. Here’s a Ring-necked Duck with her family of five #ducklings. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#Adultswithchicks #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #nature #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK
The image shows a female Ring-necked Duck with five ducklings swimming in a marsh in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. Ring-necked Ducks are among the boreal birds who make their homes on marshland. These ducks winter inland along the Gulf of Mexico and southern Atlantic coasts. They depart from their wintering sites in February and can usually be found throughout the Adirondacks from mid- to late April on.
March 29, 2026 at 9:36 AM
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Today’s #birdoftheday theme is #RuffledFeathers. Here’s a #CommonMerganser, with a crest blowing in the wind. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #ducks #AdirondackDucks
A gray duck with a reddish-brown head and a shaggy crest is perched on a rock on the shore of a lake. This is a female Common Merganser. This photo was taken at the Adirondack Interpretive Center in Newcomb, New York. The Adirondack Interpretive Center offers 3.6 miles of interpretive nature trails and a variety of educational programs on Adirondack natural history.
March 30, 2026 at 6:29 AM
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For the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #Gulls, I offer this Ring-billed Gull. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-w...

#gull #RingBilledGull #AdironackGulls #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds #upstateNewYork
The photo shows a nice-looking gray and white bird perched on a post. This is a Ring-billed Gull – the most common gull regularly seen in New York State. It is one of two gulls that breed in the Adirondack Park, the other being the Herring Gull. This species was nearly eradicated by humans between the mid-nineteenth century and 1920, but has since recovered.
May 4, 2026 at 8:51 AM
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For the Alt #BirdOfTheDay Theme #Finches, I submit this Red Crossbill, gritting on a road. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#RedCrossbill #Crossbills #Birds #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #birds #nature #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #AdirondackBirding
A red bird with a crossed bill is standing on a road in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. This is a Red Crossbill. Red Crossbills are medium-sized, full-bodied finches with a distinctive crisscrossed bill, designed to break into unopened cones. Males are a deep reddish orange overall, with darker brownish wings. Females are mostly yellowish with dark, unmarked wings. You often see them on roadways consuming small bits of gravel from the road. This “gritting” behavior is said to aid in the digestion of their seed-based diet. The grit helps to mechanically grind hard food items like seeds and nuts.
April 4, 2026 at 10:07 AM
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Today's #BirdOfTheDay theme is #Reflections. Here’s a #RingNeckedDuck family on a marsh in the #AdirondackMountains of upstate New York. wildadirondacks.org/heron-marsh-...

#eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #AdirondackBirds #AdirondackBirding #birds #ducks #ducklings #nature #wetlands #marsh #ECK
The image shows a female Ring-necked Duck with three ducklings swimming in a marsh. Ring-necked Ducks are among the many boreal birds who make their homes on marshland. This marsh also hosts American Black Ducks, Common Mergansers, Hooded Mergansers, Wood Ducks, and Mallards.
March 17, 2026 at 8:30 AM
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For the alt #BirdOfTheDay theme #LowFlying: a male Bobolink, just taking off. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-s...
#Bobolink #boblinks #GrasslandBirds #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #AdirondackBirding #birds #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK #NewYorkBirds #upstateNewYork
A black bird with a yellow cap is flying low over a hay meadow. This is a Bobolink. We don’t have a lot of them in the Adirondack Mountains, because we don’t have a lot of the grassland habitat they need to breed. The hay meadow at Heaven Hill near Lake Placid, where this photo was taken, is managed to maximize Bobolink breeding.
May 5, 2026 at 8:12 AM
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For today's #BirdOfTheDay theme #LargeBirdsInFlight, I submit this Great Blue Heron. wildadirondacks.org/adirondack-b...

#GreatBlueHeron #Herons #Birds #eastcoastkin #Adirondacks #ADK #AdirondackBirds #birding #Adirondackbirding #birds #nature #wildlife #AdirondackMountains #ECK
A large bluish gray bird is flying over a marsh in the Adirondack Mountains of upstate New York. This is a Great Blue Heron, a large, long-legged wading bird that often nests in colonies called rookeries. When in flight, Great Blue Herons (like the Great Egret) pull their necks back into an "S" shape. This is helpful for the birder since it separates these birds from cranes and storks, which fly with necks extended.
April 2, 2026 at 8:37 AM