Backyard Birding...And Beyond

This very rainy morning I sat on my enclosed porch and watched the wren box. Even though the rain had weighed the dogwood branches down to ...

The annual  World Series of Birding is on Saturday, May 9, this year.  Ornithologist Ludlow Griscom and his protege, Roger Tory Peterson ...

Since my last post  I haven't spent much time in the yard because it is migration time. I've risen early and gone places at various...

Early in the morning the birds are calling. They are proclaiming their territories as they search for food and a mate. If that is when they ...

In the small gap between the winter's foot of snow and the advent of unusual April heat in my part of the country, we had spring. In e...

It was with great relief that for the first time in too long I was finally able to walk the paths of my favorite birding locations without f...

I was in the backyard the other morning, checking to make sure the woodpeckers had not finished all the suet in the feeder, when Spruce Brin...