The Birdchaser

This weekend is the Great Backyard Bird Count . Its a fantastic way to tell people what birds are in your area. Go out. Count the birds. ...

I was giving a talk for Bedford Audubon in Westchester Co, NY yesterday, and had the chance to stop by the Croton Point area to see the larg...

So, today on my way to work I stopped by the scene of the Redwing sighting on Saturday. There was only one robin to be had, so the flock th...

The Philadelphia Eagles loss last night was nothing compared to the bad news I got this morning. While I was working on my dissertation all...

A couple years ago, Margaret van de Pitte wrote an essay entitled "The Female is Somewhat Duller" (Birding 31(4):367), in which sh...

Yesterday I had a meeting at the Birdcraft Museum and Audubon center in Fairfield, Connecticut. One of the first urban bird sanctuaries in...

There is a pair of Short-eared Owls spending the winter in a farm field a few miles from my house. On my way to work, sometimes I stop to ...

After almost another week in Pennsylvania, I'm getting antsy to do more than watch the birds out my office window (though that is nice) ...

Whew! What a wild month it has been. Our family recently moved so I could take a new position working on home and neighborhood bird conserva...

A pair of Bald Eagles are making the news 80 miles NW of Austin near LLano, where they are nesting just off the highway. Folks are gatheri...

With one more species to go to make 200 for the year in Travis County, I headed out east of Austin to the municipal landfill to look for gul...

Since I haven't spent much time in the western half of Travis County this year, I headed out for a couple hours of birding at Pace Bend ...

A couple years ago, I started a contest to see how many people could find 200 species in any of the counties around Austin, Texas each year...

After my owl workshop, I took my kids up to the ponds at Hornsby Bend to look for a possible Greater Scaup that had been reported there. I ...

This weekend I taught an owl workshop for the Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory . Thirty participants joined me to learn about the ecology of t...

Yesterday as I went to get the mail, an adult female Cooper’s Hawk, a locally uncommon bird, flew up into a large sycamore in my yard—the sa...

This evening I headed out to Hornsby Bend with my two oldest kids. Wanted to scout out Platt Lane for some owls in advance of tomorrow...

Yesterday I decided to take my seven-year old and three-year old out to look for Wild Turkeys on Thanksgiving. We headed out to my favorite...