Ah, nemesis birds. We crave you. We hunt for you. We make up elaborate theories as to why we haven’t seen you. And then,...

When you spend a lot of time outdoors you get to see strange things happen. Birds are consumate improvisors and they are always open...

Yes, these things are all connected. Last weekend, Desiree Schell and I taped a segment of “Everything You Know Is (Sort of) Wrong” (apologies)...

Friends, birders, countrymen (and women)– lend me your ears. I come not to praise winter, but to bury it. Those of us occupying the...

An early outing before work yesterday at Flatrock Brook Nature Center in the unseasonably warm temperatures turned out to be well worth it. Flatrock...

Just the mention of the name conjures notions of fear and loathing in some folks, like farmers. Red-winged Blackbird (Agelaius phoeniceus) Male (click on...

I’ve been reading Bernd Heinrich’s Summer World lately and was struck by his description of the song of the Red-winged Blackbird as “oog-la-ee.” For...

At the tail end of my birding expedition today I was fortunate enough to have a close encounter with an extremely confiding, cooperative, and...