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 ...

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 ...

In the heavy morning snowstorm last Feb. 6, I looked out a window at home and saw an accipitor hawk eating a small bird on top of the snow cover in the middle of our backyard. I grabbed my 16 power ...

A feather … slowly floating to earth … begins to tell the story. A “bushwhacker” has been at work at the backyard feeders, and now, perched on a limb in the ...

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 ...

Someone had enjoyed their breakfast long before I arrived at the kitchen table. The juvenile Cooper’s hawk sitting on the fence by the feeders looked anything but lively. It not only didn’t look ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...