When the word “phoebe” comes up, most people automatically think of things like the outermost of Saturn’s known satellites, the Greek Titan-goddess of the...

My first sighting of an Eastern Phoebe each year is, for me, when spring officially begins.  I finally got my first phoebe of the...

The Black Phoebe is a familiar and confiding black-and-white flycatcher that can be found as far north as northern California and as far south...

It is the twenty-sixth of March.  By the calendar, spring has been here for nearly a week.  Red-winged Blackbird hordes have gone through, and...

While wood-warblers are a wonderful type of bird to watch they are not the only species making their way south each fall.  Everything sparrows...

Reports of the first Eastern Phoebes of spring have been popping up all over New York and this weekend, I decided I was going...