• 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
  • Fledglings are birds that have left the nest but are still being cared for by their parents. 

    June 27, 2024
  • My son Eddie spotted this leucistic Wild Turkey last week while our family was on vacation in the Great Smoky Mountains in Tennessee. 

    June 20, 2024
  • Bird identification can be challenging, but few birds are trickier to identify than flycatchers in the genus Empidonax - the genus is often called the "bane of birdwatchers."

    June 13, 2024
  • This Savannah Sparrow posed nicely for me last week.  They're fairly common across most of North America, but I don't usually get so close to them with my camera.

    June 6, 2024
  • I found a grebe nest a few weeks ago, which was a first for me, and it reminded me of how weird grebes are.  The most common grebe in Pennsylvania is the Pied-billed Grebe.

    May 23, 2024
  • Yellow Warblers are such a bright yellow that they seem to glow.  I've been seeing a lot of them this week. 

    May 16, 2024