I was standing at the lookout scanning the water with perhaps half a dozen other birders. We were calling out species and remarking to each other on their beauty and behavior. When faintly, seemingly off in the distance, there was the call of a loon. Everyone’s heads jerked up. We all looked around. My friend [...]
Yes, I know it’s really a Tri-colored, but when I started birding this was a Louisiana Heron and lo and behold here I am in Louisiana and I saw one at City Park in New Orleans.
I once had a sparrow alight upon my shoulder for a moment, while I was hoeing in a village garden, and I felt that I was more distinguished by that circumstance that I should have been by any epaulet I could have worn.
Henry David Thoreau
There is a contest to give away 5 free copies of The Life of the Skies: Birding at the End of Nature by Jonathan Rosen over at 10,000 birds. If you have ever been asked the question, “Why do you like bird watching,” this may be the book for you.
The rules for the first 2 [...]
I saw a small flock of Rusty Blackbirds (for the first time in at least 5 years) on the lawn of my office building a few weeks ago. I flex late at work, so it was probably 6pm or so. I was waiting to pull into traffic and noticed them with a plethora [...]
Pretty cool video. It is hard to see the owl at first, but hang in there. The hawk is so big the owl can barely fly.
And yet another arctic blast is coming in. Pop over for a visit with Nick at Biological Ramblings f0r the I and the Bird # 68. There is lots to read on a cold winter day and plenty of posts from more temperate climes to take our minds off the wind rattling the shutters.
My eyes are starved for color. The world is awash in gray and brown–faded, tired, and dirty. The lingering snow is gray on gray. The woods are monochromatic soldiers in shades of taupe and ash. The patches of grass showing through on the frozen edges are a matted mousy brown. The [...]
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 [...]
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.
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