Author Archives: Birdchick

I always take the Winter Finch Forecast with a grain of salt. It’s like a Farmer’s Almanac for predicting what…

Warning, saucy photos of females to follow. About six years ago, my husband was chatting with a friend of ours…

What is up with the birding community in the northern part of the US recently? Have we all gone completely…

Sometimes, I feel that competing bird conservation groups are trying too hard to get my attention and give the impression…

So, I think I found a weird way to get my non birding co-workers to learn bird identification. My current…

I am a migration junky. I love it. No matter how many times I see certain species, I’m happy to…

As I’ve switched over to paid corporate birding (doing bird surveys for companies that want to put up wind farms…

Throughout most of North America, European Starling is a four letter word. There are groups dedicated to species like Eastern…

A common question that I get from the eastern region of the US in midsummer is, “Where have my hummingbirds…

I recently changed jobs. I went from being a part-time National Park Ranger and freelancer to a full-time Avian Field…