The Birdchaser

We originally planned to spend a week in the Lacandon Maya village of Metzabok and a few more days in Naha, but we had a medical emergency a...

Palenque is one of the most spectacular and easily accessible Classic Maya ruins.  I first visited the site in 1991 and a lot has changed--m...

Least Flycatcher--the only Empid seen in my yard this spring--though a Willow Flycatcher was picked up by my OldBird21c microphone one nig...

February about killed me with the sub-zero temperatures, and March was also very cold.  But it did start to warm up later in the month and I...

On March 30, Frank Sencher Jr. sent out a text that he had a probable Thayer's Gull at Spruce Run.  I took a quick break from my Backyar...

Unfortunately books have become like movies.  They appear, make a splash, then largely disappear from the public.  Only a few live on in t...

  I shot this slo-mo video of a Mourning Dove in the snow on my patio. I like how it gives the bird a totally different feel than w...

12 hours of birding in the cold got me more than just frozen toes--I was able to find 36 species in the yard, including 3 new for my yard li...

Join me in 2015 for a hard-core birding adventure right in my own backyard! For 2015 I'm bringing hard core birding home in an all...

So the year isn't quite over, there are still a few days left to find something to add to this list.  But barring a last minute birding ...