Recent Posts Tagged With 'spring'

• Take a Walk on the Wild Side

  Posted on Saturday April 18th, 2009 at 19:52 in birding, spring, black bear, local schmocal

  I squeezed the car into the pull-off making sure my tail was off the road.  Since the weather was gorgeous, I had come to my semi-secret place to check in on the warbler migration.  This is the place where Hooded Warblers nest every year and the on...

• Beach Birds

  Posted on Saturday March 28th, 2009 at 05:27 in travel, beach, migration, spring, sanderlings

  I am off to the Outer Banks of North Carolina to spend a few days with my cousin.  She and her husband are not birdwatchers, but appreciate that I am, so I will be able make myself scarce a few hours of the day to see what is around.  I hope there ...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Tuesday March 24th, 2009 at 20:02 in song, spring, local schmocal, song sparrow, gorrión cantor, melospiza melodia

      In the distance from atop some weeds a rusty hinge squeaked out 3 notes.   ♪Me. Me. Me. ♪   I looked around perplexed.  It did not sound like anything I knew, yet, there was something familiar about the 3 creaky notes.  Like an opera...

• Chimney Swifts are on their way back

  Posted on Monday March 16th, 2009 at 07:21 in migration, spring, chimney swift

  The first Chimney Swifts of the season have been spotted on the Gulf Coast.  YAY!!!  The folks at Driftwood Wildlife Association will be plotting the swifts’ movements northward over the next few months.  If you would like to contribute, let...

• Watch where you walk

  Posted on Thursday May 29th, 2008 at 07:01 in manhattan, migration, nyc, bird, female, spring, may, rehabilitated, injured, 1994, rescued, wildlife rehabilitator

  May 25, 1994. I was late for work hurrying down 33rd street. The train was late and it had rained in the night. As I power-walked head down in the wind, up ahead I noticed a circle of people clustered around something on the sidewalk. I could not he...

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday May 21st, 2008 at 05:52 in house, ny, spring, pair, birdhouse, swallows, tree swallows

• Birding Clinton Road

  Posted on Monday May 12th, 2008 at 06:43 in migration, forest, wood, birds, birding, spring, nj, woodland, highlands, territory, birdwatching, nesting

  Hard on the heels of my disappointed over missing the World Series of Birding because of my delayed flight back from New Orleans; a friend and I spent some time yesterday on Clinton Road. Clinton Road is a 10-mile wooded wonderland that goes from Ro...

• Looking for a Snack

  Posted on Thursday May 1st, 2008 at 15:47 in north, migration, spring, nj, eastern kingbird, passaic county, monksville reservoir, tirano de dorso negro, tyrannus tyrannus

  This Kingbird cracks me up.  Hey!  What’s up there?...

• Talkin’ Turkey

  Posted on Sunday April 20th, 2008 at 11:28 in walking, spring, turkeys, toms, gobbling

  How do they always gobble in unison? It is not like they have a 1,2,3. Go signal…....

• Birding in the Rain

  Posted on Sunday April 13th, 2008 at 13:43 in north, list, birds, spring, nj, warblers, birdwatching, local schmocal, wawayanda state park

  I’m birding in the rain Just birding in the rain What a glorious feelin’ To see warblers again. Ok, it was just a passing thought, as I stood in the 40-degree drizzle looking up at dozens of Palm Warblers and Yellow-rumps and 6 or 7, mayb...

• Wordless Wednesday

  Posted on Wednesday April 9th, 2008 at 20:00 in birds, backyard, spring, feeder, american goldfinch