While the Rovio Angry Birds game franchise is  hugely popular and has even led to a post here on 10,000 Birds that speculated on...

Perfect weeks like the hot (but not too hot) one we’ve just enjoyed here in western New York remind me how good summer is...

On Independence Day, the 4th of July, I was sitting in the kitchen of my parents’ house drinking some coffee and sharing some homemade...

July, as all northern hemisphere birders appreciate, is the month when the egg timer flips and everything starts pouring back out again in a...

I recently had a bit of a revelation. It concerns how I watch birds. And it’s kind of neat, now that I’ve thought about...

Picus viridis, the European Green Woodpecker is a bird that I longed to see during my early days as a feeder watcher. They never...

Or, to be more specific, how many American Goldfinch can you find in this picture?  It was taken up the street from my folks’...

Settling into the season yet? I find myself in that sweet spot of summer with many weeks of gorgeous weather and festivities arrayed out...