The Birdchaser

In June I'll be leading an Audubon Odyssey cruise out of Juneau. Come join me if you like whales and seabirds! Details here .

I made a quick trip out to Utah and Idaho last week for my grandfather's funeral. Not much time for birding, but did get to spend some ...

OK, not sure why I never knew about this one, but just found out about the tradition of placing ceramic birds as steam vents on baking pies...

Thursday and Friday is Project FeederWatch day at work. Most days I can see 15-20 species at our feeders, but FeederWatch days are a nice ...

In case you didn't hear, a Sungrebe (a tropical water bird never before seen north of Mexico) was photographed in New Mexico last month....

Still collecting info on birds of prey killed or injured by methane burners at landfills. Here's an American Kestrel from Illinois: The...

Pennsylvania Game Commission biologist Tim Hoppe has been studying roof-nesting Common Nighthawks for the last couple of years in and around...

Folks conducting Christmas Bird Counts this year have a chance to help us better understand the distribution of Savannah Sparrows. A group o...

One of the best things I did when I was working for the Travis Audubon Society in Austin was help with a birding class that took two dozen m...

Lenapehoking is the homeland of the Lenape (Delaware), where I live. On Saturday we went to the Penn Museum and saw the exhibit Fulfilling...

Well, we officially dipped on Wild Turkey on our annual Thanksgiving Day turkey search, making us 3 for 5 now. I did get to go out with my ...

I wrote my master's thesis on sewage ponds and the birds at Hornsby Bend in Austin. I started the Hornsby Bend Bird Observatory while ...

Those of you who have been here for awhile may remember that every Thanksgiving Day morning I take my kids out to look for Wild Turkeys. It...

So, long time ago, almost in a previous life, I was a PhD student at the University of Texas. Then I got a job. Then I got another job and...

Me neither!

Newswires have been picking up the story of Red-tailed Hawks burned by methane burners at landfills in Wisconsin (see more and links to stor...

Its not too early to steal these buttons for your blog or website. Get ready to join us for the 2009 Great Backyard Bird Count in February...

Between a stop at Peace Valley on my way into the office, and the birdfeeders at work, I got my Bird RDA well before lunch today. Highligh...

I'm a bit late catching up on recent readings...and just noticed that the American Birding Association has just admitted Common Myna to...

Not much around on the local lakes lately, just a few Pied-billed Grebes moving through, and flocks of Bufflehead. I had fifty of these sma...