Uninhibited by Bills, the Cardinals Soar!
Hard to come up with anything better than that!

I’m eager to get home and browse through the newly revised IOC Recommended English Names. This was an enormously fascinating–and fascinatingly enormous–project from the very beginning, and over the, what, two years now since the list’s appearance, I’ve found myself using it nearly every day, often in the form of the downloadable concordance of the [...]

Alison’s late-afternoon phone call from New York nearly went off the tracks when her first Tufted Titmouse of the winter landed on the feeder–followed shortly thereafter by the season’s first American Goldfinch. Some birders spurn feeder birding, backyard birding; but I always feel a closer tie to the birds that benefit directly from our presence.
I’d [...]

Grotesquely dreadful, isn’t it? Taken through a smudgy window, then cropped and cropped and cropped again, then “sharpened” to make the bird something like visible. But this Northern Cardinal (didn’t really stump anybody, did it?) has a message for all of us.
Birding is, I believe, ultimately about identification, and I’ve written about that a number [...]

The Osprey is among the most widespread of all birds, familiar and more or less common on six continents (it’s rarest, perhaps, in western Europe). I’ve now seen two of them in the past 5 days, under circumstances as different as night and day.
Saturday, Judy and Alison and I watched one soar and half-heartedly flutter [...]