Ben and Joy

While birding the dusty backroads of Gray County, I was pleasantly surprised that there were actually birds in the open fields. One of the ...

This weekend was the Kankakee Sands BioBlitz 2012 in Newton County, Indiana. It was a wonderful opportunity to see the land, learn about th...

Red-breasted Nuthatches were very common and friendly in the forest above 10,000 feet on Sunday morning. Several landed right next to me a...

Thomas Mayo Brewer would have been proud of us today, I imagine, since we saw both of his birds. Brewer's Sparrows are very common now,...

I got eighteen life birds on my Colorado trip, which is more a sign of a dearth of western trips than any great birding endeavor. Still, li...

Black-crowned Palm-Tanager - Common in the countryside. There is quite a variety of tanagers in the DR. Palmchat - the national bird of the...