The Birdchaser

Lat month my son Michael and I had a quick roadtrip out west, 7083 miles in 12 days. Not a lot of time for any real birding, but did log 175...

Another year in the books, and another year where I didn't leave the U.S. and hardly traveled outside of Pennsylvania. Here's to mor...

 October 18 marks my 20th anniversary as an eBird user!  Can't believe it has been 20 years!   As an old man, I now look back and see th...

 Back in 2020, I challenged birders in Philly, Delaware County, and Montgomery County to see which county could-- Find and report the most b...

 For the past week or so, a Great White Heron has been hanging out on the Manayunk Canal in NW Philly about a half hour from my house. This...

My house is right on Providence Rd, in the township of Nether Providence in Pennsylvania, so when I am yard birding, I am literally birding ...

The sun, dominating the horizon during my first hour of Outdoor Church I missed sunrise this morning, as I didn't get outside until ...

The COVID-19 pandemic has killed many people and disrupted the lives of many more.  While it is a terrible tragedy and scary for all of us, ...

Looking forward to my latest five lecture series coming up next week at Widener University--Ornitheology: Birds as Symbols and Messengers of...

As we wrap up another year, time to take a last look back at my birding for the year.  I had some great birding in my home county, but other...

When you are supposed to be birding the river for waterfowl, and all you get is this. Saturday was the 100th Glenolden PA CBC.  I woke u...

So I've been sitting on this review for over a year--a very worthy title that I want to do justice to, but have struggled with how to ...

This year for the Glenolden Christmas Bird Count I've inherited a 10 mile stretch of the Delaware River downstream from Philly, from the...

What is big, fat, white, American with big jowls? Last night my friend Sheryl Johnson was watching the sky over Haverford College, hoping ...

So far there have been a few nights with birds on the NEXRAD.  Tonight is another night of light migration.  A few birds on the radar, but n...

On a recent trip to Oahu to present Mayan ethno-ornithological results at an endangered languages conference , I enjoyed spending time with ...

Last Saturday I led a morning field trip for the Birding Club of Delaware County.  We hit the main vantage points along the Delaware Ri...

My name is Rob Fergus.  I'm an ornithologist.  I am almost 50 years old, and I bird in a van, down by the river. With fall migration w...

As a teenage birder growing up in Oregon, my favorite book to check out from the Clackamas County Library was Adventures in Birding , b...

This week I finally got my OldBird21c microphone back up and running for the first time after moving from NJ to sePA this past year.  It has...