On Monday I asked:

See anything interesting in this photo taken behind Allendale's historic Fell House last week?

(The Celery Farm was once a bog on John Fell's property.)

The answer, as several turkey-eyed readers pointed out, is at least one Wild Turkey (with tail feathers spread out, middle-right). Diane Louie said there could be a poult "behind" the greenery, and she could be right.

The shot below left shows another turkey nearby. There were at least eight of them wandering around the outside of the Fell House last week. (And many other weeks.)

My "Bird Watcher" column today is about the new hawk-watching season, and remembering Else Greenstone.

You can read it here:

By Jim Wright
Special to The Record

Now that September is upon us, so is one of nature’s greatest spectacles, raptor migration. Nothing can compare with visiting a local hawk watch on a crisp afternoon and tracking these magnificent birds as they pass by on their thousand-mile-plus journey south.

For those who love to witness the annual fall migration, the Covid-19 pandemic will change things significantly. A large part of the hawk-watching experience is the camaraderie among the folks who gravitate to these places after Labor Day.  Not this year.