Having recently reviewed Bill Thompson III’s new Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America in the Peterson Field Guides series and being highly impressed by it, I have been following developments surrounding it with great interest. So I was particularly pleased to learn that the good people at birdJam have teamed up with […]
Born Again Bird Watcher Archive
The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
Bird Feeder Pecking Order
Basic logic would seem to imply that in terms of pecking order at bird feeders, smaller birds would be displaced by larger ones. To a large extent this is in fact true – except in the case of Pine Siskins, Carduelis pinus. Perhaps the siskins that have recent reappeared at our feeders are simply more […]
Gros(beak) Oversight
The Evening Grosbeaks, Coccothraustes vespertinus, returned in force this afternoon. One or two have been showing up near the feeders for weeks but they have seemed somewhat detached and lost; looking around as one does when arriving first at a restaurant and the rest of the expected party has not yet arrived. Today, however, the […]
Have You Seen Vanessa?
As rumor has it that at some unknown time in the future the rains, hail, and other various forms of atmospheric water will cease falling from the sky and spring will finally return (in the Pacific Northwest, the rains will not actually cease but diminish somewhat and those of us here will call that close […]