The Birdchaser

Julie's Hummingbirds have me thinking a lot more about birds as individuals. Check out photographer Harri Vainola's meditation and...

If you haven't heard the story of my friend Julie Zickefoose 's hummingbirds, check it out at NPR. First, listen to the story of ho...

Over the past year, the birds that I've called new yard birds have been those sighted for the first time at my office on 160 acres of fi...

What kind of day is a five crow day? Today, five crows were the only birds I saw. They flew past this morning as I said goodbye to my inl...

With family here for the holidays, birding has been spotty the last few days. Yesterday I did take off for an hour and hit Peace Valley. O...

This afternoon, as I took my bird walk at work, I saw a long-tailed rufous-brown bird fly low across an open space and land in a low tangle....

Took the four year old and one year old birding this morning for a couple hours before work. At the bird blind at Peace Valley, a grey-phas...

This morning I stood around waiting for a White-winged Dove to show up at a feeder here in Bucks County. For the last ten days, it has show...

This morning I kept my kids "home" from school to go searching for a Snowy Owl (that's Hedwig for all you Harry Potter fans)...

My friend Steve sighted a Red-breasted Nuthatch at one of the feeders here at work this morning. That makes it yard bird #108 for 2005. In...

Audubon has a WatchList , a list of birds that are of greatest conservation concern. This morning, while driving over the bridge on the edg...

At the office this morning, my friend and associate Steve called up from downstairs that an American Tree Sparrow was at the feeders. I ran...

Started driving up to Ithaca, New York in the dark on unplowed roads yesterday morning. Quite a harrowing experience! Eventually, the road...

Latest buzz in the bird conservation community monitoring bird flu is the possibility that the H5N1 virus is being spread to wild birds thro...

While taking my stroll through the woods and fields at work this morning, a nice dark Merlin came cruising in along the tree line, broke up ...

According to a new paper in the Journal of Virology, H5N1 avian influenza viruses may be widespread in Tree Sparrow populations in Asia. Ju...

Last year for Thanksgiving, I took my kids out to see wild turkeys west of Austin. This year, we're visiting family in Lexington, Virgi...

A new system was announced by the UN Convention on Migratory Species this week, but details so far seem to indicate that it is really just...

On Friday, I took my normal bird walk a little later than usual...but as I got down to the corner of teh corn field, a small flock of blackb...

So for the past month I've been looking to add Brown Creeper to my yard list at work, but these little guys can be hard to find. Yeste...