Getting out of bed well before sunrise as usual, I had no reason to expect the day would provide incentive to keep not just looking but watching out the window. Before engaging my morning routine, I ...
On Veterans Day, I was sitting at my kitchen window with a delicious mug of freshly brewed coffee, a comfortable seat and freshly washed windows to look through. All I needed to do was wait and watch.
It was your standard November morning. I had a cup of coffee. I was adding notes on temperature and precipitation into my journal and I was keeping track of the arrival times and numbers of different ...
Bart Rea peered through the big windows of the Audubon Center at Garden Creek. Birds were in short supply among the hodgepodge of bird feeders on the lawn, and Rea wondered, "Where's the noon feeding ...
While observing your feeders, you may be startled by a “blue flash” that suddenly appears as if from out of nowhere, snatches one of your birds in its talons and disappears. The “blue flash” will be ...
A blue jay (top left) and an immature sharp-shinned hawk (bottom right) take flight from an eastern cottonwood during an ongoing feud that was amusing to observe. Credit: PHOTO BY BILL DANIELSON It ...
When we feed birds, spread seeds on the ground and pour them into various feeders, we expect finches and chickadees to show up. Here in southeast Ohio, a good snow may bring 70 northern cardinals to ...
If you feed birds in your backyard, don’t be surprised if you’re watching one day and a bird at your feeder suddenly vanishes into thin air. Well, maybe not totally disappears but there sure won’t be ...
It was just another day at the office for Sanders Ho of Hawk Watch International. About a half hour after I arrived at the bird counting station atop Bonney Butte near Mount Hood, a call came over the ...
The quiet of a Sunday morning was jolted by the sudden explosion of the quail flock that had been leisurely enjoying my garden seed feeder. The reason soon became apparent. Right behind the fleeing ...