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.

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

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

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.

Fledglings are birds that have left the nest but still get parental care. Barn Swallows typically receive only a couple weeks of care before they’re on their own.

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

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."

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.

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.

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