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By Keith Michael The beginning of August was a bad time for rare birds in New York City. Early Friday morning August 6th, Barry, the […]
By Keith Michael The beginning of August was a bad time for rare birds in New York City. Early Friday morning August 6th, Barry, the […]
By Keith Michael This is my tenth August article for WestView, and the first one written from out of the West Village. The end of […]
By Keith Michael It all started with a Sunday email from WestView’s own “Maggie B’s Quick Clicks” Berkvist, forwarding an earlier email from Left Bank’s […]
By Keith Michael Last year when I wrote my June article The One I’m With I was well along in my Corona Birds neighborhood marathon, […]
By Keith Michael Spoiler alert: This is not a cheerful tale. On Friday, March 26th, while I looked for migrating spring birds in the Willow […]
By Keith Michael It’s Millie’s Birthday! She’s twelve. Of course, Millie’s resting up for later festivities in the day with corgi-shaped candles in a cream […]
By Keith Michael Millie hates snow. Years ago, yes, when she was younger, she would bound through the drifts, often sinking up to her shoulders […]
By Keith Michael Millie is still sleeping off the exertion from her star appearance presenting the Bird of the Year Awards 2020, so I’ll have […]
By Keith Michael We’ve slammed the door on 2020! Of course this presentation of the 15th Annual West Village Bird of the Year Awards, “The […]
By Keith Michael “Let’s Go!” I’m thinking, “Spit! Spot!” in the voice of Julie Andrews in Mary Poppins, but I don’t say it out loud. […]
By Keith Michael “I’m smiling.” Having half my face covered with a mask, I frequently want to offer assurance about what the rest of my […]
By Keith Michael “They ain’t called confusing fall warblers for nothin.” I don’t know who I’m quoting here. Maybe myself. But I think the reassuring […]
By Keith Michael Congratulations to us. We’ve made it day by day to September of this most unusual year. And the next months are certainly […]
By Keith Michael It’s the summer birding doldrums. I’m sitting on a shady bench in Hudson River Park. An unexpected boat regatta just sailed upriver, […]
By Keith Michael It’s the afternoon of the longest day of the year: Saturday, June 20th, the summer solstice. With me safely typing at my […]
By Keith Michael I’m still wearing a mask and Millie doesn’t seem to care. Contrary to true corgi watchfulness, as attentive as Millie is […]
By Keith Michael On the last day of March, compatriot West Village bird watcher Andrew Rubenfeld and I got together (well, socially-distanced “together”) to walk […]
By Keith Michael As a devoted bird watcher, the question often flies my way, “Why do you like to watch birds?” (Of course, now it […]