The Birdchaser

I drove past Quakertown Swamp, a local wetland area with an active Great Blue Heron rookery (birds were on at least eight nests this evening...

The mobile search team from Cornell was unable to find any Ivory-billed Woodpeckers during the search the past five months. More here .

This morning in the rain before work I walked up Haycock Mountain (don't get too excited, its only a couple hundred feet high) on Penns...

This is a very cool mystery story brought to you by our friends at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology. Can you identify the parents of this bi...

OK, not the band, but a Green Heron --the only bird of note (my first one of the Spring) during a quick stop at Peace Valley this morning. ...

Despite two days of searching in the woods near my office, no migrant warblers appear to be here yet, despite numerous warbler sightings all...

This afternoon I heard and then spotted my first Chimney Swifts of the Spring circling over the spires of a church in Sellersville. I love ...

It's 85 degrees today in SE Pennsylvania. Leaves are starting to pop out on the trees, and people are starting to report migratory song...

Finally, after over 25 years of scoping out hundreds of thousands of yellowlegs, I finally got my first North American sighting of a Ruff . ...

By the time I got back to Nockamixon with my youngest kids to show them the oystercatcher, everyone was still standing around, but the bird ...

After work I picked up my fourth grader from school and we cruised back up to Lake Nockamixon to see the American Oystercatcher . There wer...

Today it was my turn to start a rare bird chase. Driving back from errands in Quakertown, I stopped by Lake Nockamixon to see if there were...

Tomorrow night (April 18) I'll be presenting a talk on how birds see the world at the Delmarva Ornithological Society meeting at the As...

Howling winds, sleet, and snow all night--but only a small change in birds at Peace Valley on my way into work this morning. The Snow Goose...

Always a treat to see inland away from their off-shore haunts, six White-winged Scoters were floating in the middle of the lake at Peace Val...

On the way to work this morning, I stopped by Peace Valley, as usual. Most of the waterfowl have moved through, but there was a nice breedi...

Yesterday while I was on the phone, my first Osprey of the year circled over the creek outside my window at work. This morning on my way to...

A single Red-necked Grebe , a rare migrant here in SE Pennsylvania, was found at Peace Valley last week and was still present this morning w...

This week I moved to a larger downstairs office at work, with a fireplace, some nice plush chairs and more space for my books. But the best...

This morning a friend saw 14 Wild Turkeys crossing the driveway when he pulled into work. When I arrived a half hour later, I decided to ta...