Rich Bradley

The day started inauspiciously with a pre-dawn sheet of ice on the roads. It was treacherous enough that some groups didn’t venture out, or began counting later in the morning, after the salt trucks had done their work.  Temperatures hovered around the mid-20’s most of the day with a fairly steady northwest breeze. Jim Peoples’ […]

This year’s Delaware Reservoir Christmas Bird Count (ODHR) was a great success. We had a return to “normal winter weather” just in time for the count. While it wasn’t as pleasant as the unseasonable warm weather we experienced earlier in the month, it provided more visible behavior in the local birds. I think that during

Overview The Delaware Reservoir Christmas Bird Count was held on Sunday, December 14, 2014. While the birders welcomed such warm weather, the birds seemed too relaxed to show up: numbers seemed low for many common species. Highlights and Rarities First, the rarities: Ben Warner’s group found a Tundra Swan and a Merlin (one of several