• Eight species of thrashers nest in the United States, but only one is found east of the Mississippi River.

    September 12, 2024
  • Melissa and I love watching the Gray Catbirds that visit our yard every summer.

    September 5, 2024
  • Across North and South America, no family of birds has more species than the 441 species of Tyrant Flycatchers.

    August 29, 2024
  • My wife Melissa and I just celebrated our anniversary.  That reminded me of a trip we took to Wyoming years ago on our anniversary. 

    August 22, 2024
  • You're probably seeing many young European Starlings in your yard this time of year.

    August 15, 2024
  • This little fluffball is a juvenile Green Heron. It hatched from an egg only a few weeks ago, in a stick nest built on a tree branch overhanging a shallow wetland.

    August 8, 2024
  • Fall migration is underway, and some of the earliest migrants are shorebirds like these Least Sandpipers I found last week. 

    August 1, 2024
  • I've been enjoying seeing a fledgling Red-bellied Woodpecker visiting my feeders during the last two weeks.

    July 25, 2024
  • The slurred whistles of the Louisiana Waterthrush are quite loud so that other waterthrushes can hear them over the constant noise of water rushing over rocks.

    July 18, 2024
  • Red Crossbills are one of Pennsylvania's least studied breeding birds.  To find nesting crossbills, you usually need to head north. 

    July 11, 2024