The Birdchaser

This morning I watched a family of Western Screech-Owls from West Lynn, Oregon (across the river from where I grew up as a kid) on a webcam ...

Lots of good birds going through my area. This morning there were over a dozen Orchard Orioles in the trees along the creek behind my offic...

Lots of Eastern Kingbirds and vireos moving through the yard at work today, but the star was a Little Brown Bat hanging from the ceiling of...

Migration is starting to ramp up, and this morning I got several new birds at the office, bringing the 2005 yard list there up to 67 species...

Birding hero Kenn Kaufman gives a great interview with Grist magazine about birds, birding, and our efforts to protect them. While I'm...

Scientists shocked the world this morning with the announcement that the Ivory-billed Woodpecker , presumed extinct for decades, has been re...

During lunch this morning, I found another new yard bird for the year--a couple of Blue-gray Gnatcatchers, tiny little birds that flit aroun...

This weekend we drove up to Boston for Patriot's Day. During the re-enactment of the Battle of the Bridge at Concord, a Red-tailed Hawk...

What kills 5% of the bird population (1 billion birds) in North America each year? Plate glass windows . Birds see trees and sky reflected...

One of the difficult things to convey through a blog is the performance aspect of birding. We all love to watch people who really know thei...

Not totally satisfied with my looks at Lawrence's Goldfinch earlier in the week, I tried a couple more times to get a better view. On M...

I'm at a conference in Pleasanton, CA for a few days, and took a few hours after the conference this evening to bird Mines Rd south of L...

This afternoon during my lunch I added three more office yard birds for the year--Black Vulture, Northern Rough-winged Swallow, and Chipping...

David La Puma has a great website up charting bird migration as seen on NEXRAD Radar. Flocks of birds heading north show up on this radar,...

Sometimes things happen that make you feel like you are actually in tune with the world around you. This morning, as I drove over the bridg...

Last Thursday I had to go to DC for some meetings and afterwards we went out to several spots along the Potomac River, where Ospreys were v...

This morning as I arrived at work, a flock of 40 Snow Goose flew over with a lone Canada Goose. This is 2005 Office Yard Bird #37. Since t...

On Saturday I took my three year old birding for a couple hours. Only thing better than birding is birding with the kids. You don't se...

Last weekend in Nebraska, the Rowe Sanctuary got a call about a possible Whooping Crane sighting. We went out to check it out, and it turne...

Anyone who has doubts about the intelligence of birds should watch this video of a New Caledonian Crow making a tool out of wire to retriev...