Author Archives: Carrie

On my latest trip home my mom and I spent a bit of time talking about Bald Eagles. I’d seen…

Tragically, McSweeney’s doesn’t have quite enough hard-core birders in the audience to appreciate this. But I thought you guys would!…

So it turns out dogs are useless. Or at least the four dogs in the house I’m staying at in…

It’s one thing to go birding. A long trip to a distant hot spot, a targeted species, the careful working…

When I was a kid I loved books like My Side of the Mountain, Island of the Blue Dolphins, and…

When I was a kid, and couldn’t travel, I thought patch birding sounded dreadfully boring. Now that I can travel,…

For most readers of this blog, Pete Dunne hardly needs an introduction. As far back as the late ’70s he’s…

As you might have seen mentioned previously, last weekend the illustrious Corey Finger and I broke the Queens record with…

Last Saturday, the Janet L. Swanson Wildlife Health Center received an adult male Red-tailed Hawk that had been found on…

The nature memoir – a blend of place-based writing with life story – has been having a “moment” that’s lasted…