International Migratory Bird Day
posted 4 months ago, updated 35 minutes later | 0 comments
Many migratory birds travel vast distances across the Western Hemisphere between their non-breeding areas and breeding grounds. So they’re global citizens -- just like we humans are. Birds know nothing about borders or countries or environmental l...
Birding Your Patch
posted 5 months ago | 0 comments
There’s a great tradition in birding -- which “twitchers” (their word for “birders”) in Great Britain are especially keen on -- that is referred to as “birding your patch.” It’s simply the practice, day by day, season by season, and year by year, ...
Our food choices are killing our birds
posted 5 months ago, updated 16 minutes later | 0 comments
Oftentimes we like to think that it’s “them” -- somebody else, not us -- who is responsible for the catastrophic population declines of so many of our birds. But that is not the case. The choices each of us make every day collectively results in t...
April showers bring… early spring birds!
posted 6 months ago | 2 comments
Practically everyone associates the arrival of spring with the return of migrating birds. In fact, birds are migrating back and forth across North America in every month of the year. It’s a lot more complex and interesting than just “some kinds of...
The Squirrel Conundrum
posted 6 months ago, updated 2 minutes later | 2 comments
Squirrel! Just say the word and many backyard birdwatchers draw a battle line. On one side: amazing agility, determination and cleverness. On the other: ropes, pulleys, baffles, flingers, flippers, zappers, clappers, and much gnashing of teeth. An...
Saving the Red Knot
posted 7 months ago, updated 2 minutes later | 1 comment
Many Eons birders are probably aware that, in the current (and long-standing) political climate of heedless environmental pillaging, many birds and other species hover at the brink of extinction yet -- despite tireless efforts -- are not yet liste...
My Last Woodpecker
posted 7 months ago | 0 comments
There he was, moving methodically up the main trunk of a coast live oak in a place called Eaton Canyon in Altadena, California. It was spitting rain so the light wasn’t great, and part of him was obscured by overhanging foliage. But there was no m...
Window Kills and How to Prevent Them
posted 7 months ago, updated 3 minutes later | 0 comments
Everyone knows that birds are often killed or injured by banging into windows -- but you might not be aware of the magnitude of the problem or what you personally can do about it. Researchers now know that windows are among the most deadly thin...
Birding Saint John USVI
posted 8 months ago, updated 5 days later | 0 comments
After many years between trips I finally made it back to the Caribbean -- woo-hoo! I did some scuba diving here and there in my “pre-birding” days, but I’d never really gone birding in the region before.
We found the US Virgin Island of Saint Jo...
We found the US Virgin Island of Saint Jo...
A Bird in the (Native) Bush
posted 8 months ago, updated 1 minute later | 0 comments
My gardener friends start getting their seed catalogs in the mail about this time -- so that means it’s time to start thinking about ordering trees and shrubs that benefit birds and wildlife. Here in the Northeast folks who’ve planted hardy, nativ...
