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SkyWatch Friday

Here is another sky shot from Yellowstone. With all of the rainy cloudy days that we have had here in Minnesota since we got back its almost hard to remember what blue skies look like. Thank heaven for SkyWatch Friday.

Yellow-bellied Marmot

Why Aren’t There More Female Birding Superstars?

Chasing the mystery elaenia which showed up in Chicago in 2012—where my girls at? That’s the question asked by this...

Birds Nesting In Siding

        There’s an apartment building just across the alley from mine. It’s a real…”fixer upper” to say...

Grey-headed Robins

The Grey-headed Robin of Australia is not a robin as Americans would know one (thinking, inexplicably, that a thrush is...

Drunk Birds

I can now add “sober ride for drunk birds” to my resume. I usually do not answer my phone while bike riding, but I could tell by the ringtone that it was my neighbor Zoe. She doesn’t spend her social time foolishly, so I knew if she called, she had something important to say. [...]

Photo uploading problems! Oh wait -- resolved!

I've been trying to upload more photos from my Big Bend trip, but blogger is not cooperating.And of course no sooner do I say that than I am able to upload pics: Lifers on parade! Not a great photo, but my best photo of one of the many...Show More Summary

Healing Butterfly Garden Brings Beauty and Education to Mott | UofMHealthBlogs.org

Healing Butterfly Garden Brings Beauty and Education to Mott | UofMHealthBlogs.org.

Sweet Birding on Sugar Creek

A vista along Sugar Creek Road, Fayette County, WV. Among the many trips I've lead over the past ten springs at The New River Birding and Nature Festival, the one we call Sugar Creek is right at the top of the list. There are three warbler...Show More Summary

Violet-green Swallow

The violet-green swallow nests in the western half of North America from Alaska to Mexico. Like the tree swallow, which are common in the eastern half of North America, they are cavity nesters. Since tree swallows are slightly larger...Show More Summary

The Geladas of Ethiopia

Geladas are the sole survivors of a once abundant branch of primates that historically foraged across the grasslands of Africa,...

Yellowstone Bison

Yellowstone is the only place in the lower 48 states of the US where bison have roamed continually. Over 3000 bison roam the park. They are divided into two group or herds, the northern herd and the Hayden Valley or central herd. The Yellowstone bison are pure bison with no cattle genes. They are descendant from the small herd that continued on and was protected in Yellowstone.

American Oystercatcher War in the Rockaways

The barrier beach neighborhood in eastern Queens is known as the Rockaways and the far eastern part is known as...

Best Bird of the Weekend (Second of June 2013)

How are seasons like species? In both instances, we can have trouble telling where one ends and the other begins....

Hoary Elfin

This weekend I traveled to northwestern Wisconsin to a workshop on photographing butterflies. I was hoping to get an opportunity to photograph some of the more unusual butterflies that are out in late spring and early summer. Unfortunately we found that there seemed to be a lot less butterflies then when we went to the same area last year in mid May. Show More Summary

17-Year Cicadas and a Mississippi Kite in Staten Island

Back in 1979 New York State birders were pleased with the first record of Mississippi Kites in the state when...

Are Atlantic Puffins in Trouble?

In the words of a Magic 8-Ball, “Outlook not so good.” Alan Tilmouth reported in these pages a few months...

Autumn birding in the Blue Mountains

Our trip to the Blue Mountains in New South Wales in autumn was planned at short notice and we had...

New Holland Honeyeater

The main flow of the North American wood warbler migration has passed me by again and I have had to...

Great Horned Owl

The great horned owl is a large owl that is found in North, Central, and South America. It is the second largest owl in the Americas, with only the snowy owl weighing slightly more. Like most owls they are year round residents in their territory. Show More Summary