CHRONICLE PROFILE CROTON'S BIRD COMMISSIONER, CARY ANDREWS

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Chronicle profile: Croton's Bird Commissioner, Cary Andrews

Croton-on-Hudson is apparently the only community in the U.S. that has a Bird Commissioner. The job is in very good hands, say those who know Cary Andrews.

MICHAEL BALTER

“If birds are happy, people are happy,” says Cary Andrews.

It’s 8 am on a cloudy Tuesday morning, just after an overnight rain. Croton-on-Hudson’s Bird Commissioner is up on the grasslands of Croton Point Park, site of a notorious former landfill. The Hudson River flows off in the distance, and a light breeze blows through the grasses and shrubs that Westchester County began planting here after the landfill was decommissioned in the 1980s. Read more at Chronicle profile: Croton's Bird Commissioner, Cary Andrews (substack.com)