Nebraska

Nebraska last month was snowy and cold, but Thanksgiving Day itself the sun peeked out for a couple of precious afternoon hours.

Classic midwestern winter weather for classic midwestern winter birds. Eastern Nebraska was having a notably good finch incursion, and Carolyn’s feeders were benefiting, with large numbers of American Goldfinches and Purple Finches.

Though they had […]

My schedule has been a full one these last weeks: Thanksgiving in Nebraska was followed by early December in Sonora was followed by a few days in Panama was followed by the dire need to get this house cleaned up for Alison’s arrival! And with a new old computer, I find myself unable to work […]

The same weather I’d been complaining about during the first couple of days of our visit seemed just right for a Thanksgiving morning: cold, gray, and snow in the air is the stuff of holiday memories in the midwest, and the short drive to my grandma’s house, once we cleared the stomach-wrenching sprawl of Sarpy […]

As you might expect, we ended up spending a fair bit of time inside in Nebraska last week. But that didn’t mean we went birdless; Carolyn’s feeders were busy the whole time, and they were attracting some species I hadn’t seen in the area in good numbers since the 1980s. (I have photos, too, but […]

It had been years, literally, since Alison and I had both been to Nebraska for a holiday, so we were very happy to find that our schedules would let us meet in Omaha this year for a short week with my family. Not quite so happy, I guess, to find it cold, gray, windy, and […]