I have my work cut out for me.

I keep lists in every field guide I carry, usually on the inside of the back cover spilling over onto the front if I am fortunate. I have a pocket-sized daily birding dairy that I carry and little bits of paper with birding notes are stuffed in odd corners of the desk. I [...]

I and the Bird #67

Come On! Let’s go to Australia. Trevor is hosting I and the Bird #67. I love reading bird stories.  It’s armchair birding at it best.  Consider submitting something for the next edition of I and the Bird.

Long Wait for the Hoary Redpoll

I was late. I knew it. I had procrastinated. I should have been there by 7 but it was closer to 10. It had taken me an hour to drive north, longer than I had expected. I rationalized that the bird was being seen as late as 10, so I [...]

Winter Finch Invasion

I started to hear talk of a possible winter finch invasion sometime in the fall. There were notices published on the various ListServs about the dearth of food sources in the north woods. You could hear the muttering through the emails. Then the odd winter finch started showing up at feeders. There was a building [...]