The Birdchaser

I don't know for sure when I saw my first Black-capped Chickadee , but for sure knew them as a kid in the early 1980s when I started mor...

New York Times Op Ed piece here .

Hunters can appreciate how much of an impact free-roaming cats have on birds and other wildlife. Check out these posters from ReMaine Wild ...

tiny icebergs arctic visitors floating on my lake

Started off the morning with a Great Blue Heron and Fish Crows flying over my kids' preschool. On the drive into work, I pulled over t...

(image: wikipedia ) This afternoon I took a short walk down to the creek behind my office and was able to find 3 Wood Duck , new for the BIG...

A few papers are starting to run the GBBC results news release, including the Environmental News Service . I also have a short write up of ...

April 2002 Dried leaves rustle as a Carolina Wren pursues a large brown spider across a dry creek bed. The spider, seeking an escape, dart...

Birds were really active on my street this morning. Where I only saw two birds and heard another a couple days ago in the wind, this mornin...

In spite of being in lots of places that should have had Common Loons this year, I hadn't seen one yet in 2008 until my drive home from ...

There are a couple Easter legends and stories involving birds. Unhappily, sparrows betrayed the location of Jesus in the Garden of Gethsema...

A somewhat shortened morning walk today, with snow falling in huge flakes that disintegrated upon hitting the paved hike and bike path. Wit...

The wind was still blowing this morning, but the birds were much more active, and I ended up with 30 species on my walk--including the elusi...

Only thing harder than birding in the rain is birding in the wind. By 4:30 this afternoon I realized I'd only seen Canada Goose, Mute S...

Hopefully my last cat and bird post for awhile! Some folks don't seem willing to accept the magnitude of the cat predation problem. Wh...

I and the Bird (IATB) #71 is up at The House and other Arctic Musings . Host Clare Kines is one of my favorite online blogging buddies, and...

This week a property management company in Virginia caved into pressure from Alley Cat Allies, and will allow over 200 feral cats to remain ...

OK, not birding without clothes, but stripped of binoculars. Since it was raining this morning, I just put on the rain coat and went for my...

Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go to this conference in Mexico, but I was a co-presenter of a paper on birds and bird knowledge among t...

It had to happen eventually. Today a co-worker called me over to watch a Wild Turkey feeding just outside the window under one of our feede...