The Birdchaser

It has been two weeks since Audubon let me go, and almost as long since I've posted anything. Enjoyed a trip to Austin with my family, ...

If you haven't seen this classic produced by my friend Evan for the Daily Show, treat yourself! Little known fact: Audubon had the chan...

While birding this past Saturday I brushed off three wood ticks that got onto me in the field, and when I got home I pulled off one nymph de...

In eight hours today we found the following birds in the Wissahickon Watershed in and around Ambler, Montgomery Co, Pennsylvania. Usually ...

The rain finally stopped long enough this morning for a short foray into the woods on my way into the office this morning (only three more d...

Yesterday I was informed that Audubon was eliminating my position and my last day of work there will be May 11. I'll miss helping run t...

I don't remember when in the early 90s I first heard about Phoebe Snetsinger, the indomitable middle-aged birder who became a legend cha...

For your blogging/poetry needs, from one online source : blurred, burd, byrd, curd, ferd, gerd, gird, gjerde, heard, herd, hird, hurd, jerde...

So here's the challenge: A) find the bird, B) tell me what it is. At least as good as published photos of 21st Century Ivory-billed Woo...

(photo: wikimedia commons ) Ah Europe, you gotta love a place where you can see tits every day and talk about them with a straight face! Th...

Snapped a photo of this beauty yesterday in Hofgarten park in Düsseldorf. It's a Central Asian bird, and since this is Western Europe, ...

One of the things I get a kick out over here in Germany are the little stairs in all the fountains so baby ducks can get in and out of the w...

Benrath Schloss, a big pink palace in southern Düsseldorf is a great spot, but maybe not the birdiest set of grounds in mid-April. Lots of...

OK, very cool castle. Not many birds. Coot, Tufted Duck, Mute Swan in the mote. Jackdaws on the castle. White Wagtails on the grass and ...

Spent a nice couple of hours walking out to the northernmost spit of sand in Denmark this afternoon with my kids. Lots of great birds aroun...

Yesterday I spent the afternoon in Hasseler Forst, a local park and birding spot here in Düsseldorf. I was able to find about 35 species wh...

So far just the usual backyard birds in Dusseldorf: Wood Pigeon, Carrion Crow, Jay, Magpie, Blue Tit, Great Tit, Blackbird, Dunnock, etc. D...

eBird now has a new feature where you can see how you rank. I'm currently ranked #8 among all eBird users for species reported in Nort...

Shot with my point and shoot (x3 optical zoom) while driving as it flew alongside the highway.

OK, so my digiscoping was pretty lousy on this one, but I got over 50 shots of a Snail Kite hunting and eating snails at the end of Joe Ove...