Birds

It’s been almost exactly four years since the last time I was bored enough with my local avifauna to focus…

When I arrived at the Choctawhatchee Basin Alliance office in Santa Rosa Beach, Florida, a high-tempo, tap-tap-tapping immediately arrested my attention. Surrounded…

I marked my forty-first spin around the sun on Friday and to celebrate we did a family three-day weekend in…

Alas for the naming of birds that it took place before anyone had the foresight to recognize that the Sharp-shinned…

Walking up the ramp, from the docks here at Marina Palmira, on my way to the adjacent sidewalk that border…

Twenty-seventeen was an amazing year for me in terms of seeing birds. I’ll do a full rundown of the year…

See that title? I originally typed “10 Best Birds of 2018.” Which, I think, says something about birding–no matter how…

As tree crowns grow thinner, Autumn becomes the true woodpecker season. September in the Balkans started with the usual unruly…

I have had to wait a long time to write this post. Red Warblers, Cardellina rubra, are easy enough to…

It’s Christmas Bird Count season, and if you know Christmas Bird Counts you have probably heard the tale of how…