truestar: April 2009 Archives

I take a lot of photographs of the landscape and have an interest in the regional wildlife--particularly within the city limits--as it is a much cleaner place then when I was a kid.  I am by no description an expert on the information contained within the confines of this article, but here it is:  

The New York State bird is the Eastern Bluebird, the colorful bird that many songwriters of days gone by wrote about.  Harold Arlen (A Buffalo Native) put a line about this songbird in his masterful work "Somewhere over the Rainbow," and we are all familiar with the line about the Bluebird of Happiness and how lucky it is for him to visit you.