The Birdchaser

This weekend I had the feeling that I should finally check out Pine Run, a small pond east of Peace Valley that attracts shorebirds. Monday...

Last week, Sheri Williamson and I slipped out of an Arizona Audubon meeting for a couple hours so I could go see my first White-eared Hummi...

Photo: http://www.avesphoto.com/website/pictures/NHKCOM-4.jpg In Mexico, the Chupacabra ("goatsucker") is an evil monster stal...

Southeastern Arizona has some of the best birding and most wonderful scenery in the United States, so I didn't complain when I had to at...

For the last few weeks in August I traveled to meetings in Midland, Michigan, where I pretty much didn't see any birds. Then I flew to ...

For a week in August, I helped put on an Audubon Chapter Leadership Seminar on Hog Island , Maine. Very cool place, with lots of Common Eid...

Birding has been a bit slow these last couple of months, as I've been focussed on work and writing my doctoral dissertation on urban bir...

This past Saturday I took two dozen cub scouts and parents birding at Peace Valley Nature Center in Doylestown. The kids had to find 10 spe...

Saw a nice female Wild Turkey on the bypass access road on my way into work early one morning this week. Otherwise, pretty quiet. An Ameri...

The past few days, a Barnacle Goose has been hanging out at a pond in a housing community a few miles north of my work. I stopped by on my...

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...