Clellie McKeever Lynch has been a birder and amateur naturalist since she was a child on the South Fork of Long Island. In addition to keeping a close eye on birds, other animals and plant life in northern Columbia County, N.Y., and the Berkshires, she and her husband, Dan, have birded all over the world. Her column on her birding activities appears in the Berkshire Eagle, every second Thursday. She first met David St James more than twenty years ago on the Berkshire County Christmas Count.
