Now this was a long day! I hadn’t included Gavins Point in our itinerary, but that Harlequin Duck is just too good to pass up, and he performed beautifully for us when we arrived at Gavins Point about 8:30 this morning. The combination of a surpassing rarity, slightly warmer temperatures, and a weekend day also [...]

The trip is shaping up to be a lot of fun, the group congenial, the birds cooperative. If only the weather were a little warmer! We ended up spending as much time in the car today as out of it, but still had some exciting experiences.
One of them came as we drove slowly along Cedar [...]

Ed and Bryan have wrought their magic at the ABA offices, and the new issue of Winging It should be in your hands soon (unless you’re not an ABA member, in which case you should hasten to join at americanbirding.org).
There’s a lot of very useful birdfinding information this time ’round, including Charlie Babbitt’s piece on [...]

Sorting gulls this morning at Carter Lake, Iowa, we were startled by the sudden appearance of an adult Peregrine Falcon, which flashed past us to land on a hapless Killdeer. It took off with its squirming prey, only to find itself beset by a brash immature Herring Gull, which chased it acrobatically until it dropped [...]

Fontenelle Forest, in Bellevue, Nebraska, has always held a special place in my birding heart; I grew up in a house at its southern edge, and the place and the people I met there are what made me a birder. One of my favorite experiences as a young birder was to arrive there early on [...]