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Some thrill to the feeling of spring in the air. Others crave something more primal such as love. Well, friends, can’t you feel it? Love is in the air… bird love! We’ve been talking about it–often in rather graphic terms–all week. Don’t pretend you’re not a little bit curious… This weekend, Corey and I will [...]

This month strikes me as the oddest April in my memory. Then again, April is always an odd month. Robert Frost certainly thought so… The sun was warm but the wind was chill. You know how it is with an April day. When the sun is out and the wind is still, You’re one month [...]

April may be volatile, but this month offers plenteous pleasures intermingled with its abundance of showers. Was T.S. Eliot being sarcastic when he penned the line, “April is the cruellest month, breeding lilacs out of the dead land… ?” As far as I’m concerned, watching spring advance one bud, blade, and bird at a time makes [...]

Most weeks, we tend to focus on the movements and migrations of birds. However, with upcoming Easter and Passover festivities and America’s all-important Spring Break, now is a good time to focus on the peregrinations of people. Where are you going this weekend? Will you see birds there? Share your plans in the comments below! [...]

Bird watchers on my latitude and perhaps yours as well have reason to look forward to this coming weekend. I can’t promise an end to the wacky weather you’ve probably experienced, but can assure you that April is ending. Why does that matter? May offers, as you may know, some of the best migratory bird [...]

I don’t know about you, but I’ve been barraged by some of those April Showers the poets love to dwell on. I’m also buried by a bunch of birthdays. Birds, on the other hand, are just beginning to build up in numbers. Spring migration has most likely manifested in some form or another everywhere on [...]

This spring has been rather lousy so far.  Like, really lousy.  Like, really cold, really wet, really windy, and almost completely lacking in days off work.  Of course, that is just my perspective and I have been known to think that birds that don’t show up until May are late if they aren’t here by [...]

Mike is making hay down in Texas leaving me to mind the store until his return.  I am not the least bit bitter about him enjoying an early look at migrants that I have to wait a couple more weeks to see.  Nor am I jealous at all that he is racking up life bird [...]

No time to talk… the sun’s come out and spring fever has overtaken at least this portion of the Northern Hemisphere! What will you be doing this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below! I’ll be preparing for a very exciting birding trip as well as celebrating my birthday [...]

First comes April Fools Day, then April showers, and then my birthday. Clearly, as far as months go, April isn’t exactly front-loaded. But during this lovely time of year, massive transformation ensues and by mid-month we’ll see some welcome changes. Good things — new blooms and spring migrants — come to those who wait. For [...]

The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but, as Damon Runyan said, that’s the way to bet. Where will you be running to this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below. I managed to get my weekend birding in mid-week but still [...]

Spring migration in the northern hemisphere is an attenuated event, beginning with a trickle that increases to a torrent of songbirds. You may, depending on where you are, be in it up to your neck or just your ankles. Regardless, birds are on the move throughout the world’s temperate regions RIGHT NOW. So where will you [...]

April is here and change is upon us. If you hail from a temperate region, you’re in the midst of a magical transformation that has billions of organisms growing, blooming, and moving. Join the action! Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below. For the first [...]

Spring may arrive in mid-March but in my latitude, it doesn’t begin to take root until April. Well, April has come and with it, record-breaking warmth! I can’t imagine a better time to get outside. Where will you be this weekend and will you be birding? Share your plans in the comments below. I will head [...]

Have you spent your April wisely? Will you look back on this past month as one of action or inertia, of adventure or apathy? You’ve got precious little time left to make things happen. So what will you be doing this weekend and do your plans involve birding? Share your ambitions and expectations in the [...]

April is on the wane and it seems like everyone is rushing to somewhere better, or at least warmer. Human beings are far from the only beings on the move. Every day, more birds and butterflies turn up in my neckof the woods. What’s happening in yours? More important, where are you headed this weekend [...]

The second weekend of April is significant for many reasons. The most obvious, of course, is the rapid transition from an extreme season to a more temperate and migratorially-gifted one. Anyone who exists at the intersection of United States citizen and chronic procrastinator may well know this weekend as the last chance to do those [...]

April is here and with it, a multitude of reasons to get outside. A new season is upon us and birds are on the move. Will you be watching birds or anything else of interest this weekend? If so, let us know what you have planned in the comments below! I’ll be kicking around New [...]