Eerie. Sinister. Unnaturally still. These are apt descriptions for those wondrous waders, the night herons. These stout birds of the genera Nycticorax and Gorsachius...
Greg Laden has put up the 48th edition of I and the Bird and it is a doozy. So if you would like a...
Chipping Sparrow, macro-style On Friday, at my Aunt Bonnie and Uncle Paul’s house in Saugerties, NY, I enjoyed myself watching their feeders and photographing...
Mockingbirds are members of the Mimidae family, a group of American passerines that also includes thrashers, tremblers, and New World catbirds. These stentorian songbirds,...
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...
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