This one came to my ABA account:
Subject: Churlish Ornithology
Think I’ll get a t-shirt made!

Once a year or so, whether it needs it or not, the stack of papers in my workroom gets a quick sort. My method is archeological, and among the prizes in the deeper strata this morning was a scrap of a notebook page I picked up somewhere along the trail this past summer. It was […]

I’m not much of a butterflier: they’re too small, too fast, too cryptic. But this morning I found our front-yard buddleia (of a non-invasive species native as close as southwest Texas) full of skippers and hairstreaks.
This is the aptly named gray hairstreak, and all of the dozen or so individuals on this single bush assumed this odd […]

Denis, Darlene, and I conducted our regular IBA monitoring this morning in northeast Tucson. The recent flooding has made much of the area unrecognizable, but it has also left several shallow pools in the old pond, which had been dry for many months now.
As we scanned, a large juvenile Cooper’s Hawk flashed down onto the […]

An easy question with an easy answer: they’re notes made in the field with the bird in view. But the newly e-published Auburn University paper conflates genuine field notes with the post factum written narratives of a sighting, calling the latter “transcribed field notes.”
The only field notes in sight here are the pages ripped from […]