One thing I’ve learned about birding now that I have a few years under my belt is that it is truly a group sport....

I’ve spent quite a few hours lately reading and paging through my recently arrived field guide, Birds of Europe. With a planned trip to...

Mockingbirds are members of the Mimidae family, a group of American passerines that also includes thrashers, tremblers, and New World catbirds. These stentorian songbirds,...

April 21 – 29 is National Wildlife Week. It’s also the span of the First Annual Blogger Bioblitz. If you are a blogger but...

When I got home from work today I realized that I needed to brush my cats, especially B.B., the long-haired one.  The male Northern...

I think a nuthatch has gained access to a computer. On Easter Sunday, two days after I posted my weekend picture featuring the White-breasted...

The bird blogosphere, or at least the bird blogosphere of the north-central-and-eastern United States, has been abuzz with early-returning Tree Swallows and a late-arriving...

The nasally honking “song” of White-breasted Nuthatches is, uh, well, I had to constrain the word “song” within quotation marks, so it’s not exactly...