The Birdchaser

A new study published this week in the journal Science reveals some surprising previously unknown facts about the bird family tree--such as ...

I'm heading up to Maine this weekend with my family to help with the Family Birding Adventure at the Hog Island Audubon Camp . If work...

This is the last year of the Pennsylvania Breeding Bird Atlas project, and I still have a lot of holes in my assigned survey block, so yeste...

At 7:30 this evening I was sitting at home when I realized I hadn't gotten my Bird RDA , so I quickly slipped down to the creek and park...

As I've looked back on it, I think I started birding in the 40s or 50s, though I wasn't actually born until just after the Summer of...

I remember the first bird field guide I ever saw, it was the Audubon Society Field Guide to North American Birds, Western Region, by John L....

Just over a month ago, I noticed a robin building a nest on my neighbor's porch. Not just any neighbor's porch, but the neighbor wi...

After driving my kids to school this morning, I've got 19 species for the day. The temps are in the 90s. I've no desire to go out ...

After several days of great birding this past week, today I've got the shakes from birding withdrawls! I did easily manage 23 species o...

(photo: Howard Eskin ) Last night when we got back to PA from NC, we were a bit chagrined to find that a Little Egret had been seen on Satur...

On Friday and Saturday, I enjoyed, for the first time, pelagic trips without pain. After many touch and go trips, I finally got "the p...

On our way down to North Carolina for some pelagic birding, we made a few stops in Delaware to look for Saltmarsh Sharp-tailed Sparrow--a sm...

I'm off tomorrow for a couple pelagic trips off Manteo, NC. Lots of good birds have been seen offshore there this season, so wish me lu...

I'm still alive. I saw an Eastern Kingbird , and 22 other species today. Mostly on my drive into work. I've got a big birding tri...

How many people take vacation days just to hang out on their porch? Work in the garden? Not drive if at all possible? Apparently, I do. I...

My laziness continues. This morning I got my Bird RDA by hanging out on my back porch. Nothing overly remarkable, but nice to watch the C...

I've pretty much fallen off the birding wagon this week. I've done just the minimum to get my Bird RDA driving to work most days, a...

What if you were only allowed one tiny square of chocolate a year. Would you savor it? Nibble off tiny little pieces and let them just mel...

I'm in the very best of company in the latest I and the Bird blog carnival at Gallicissa . Check it out.