What is a Mississippi Kite doing in New Hampshire? Before answering that question, there is this one: What is a Mississippi Kite? I was on a...

Friday went to Newmarket, NH, for the Mississipi Kite. One male and two females are busy nest building and copulating. Nest is hidden in a m...

The second Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas (VBBA) conducted its field research from 2003 to 2007. The aim of the project was to document the nes...

The river of grass stretched in all directions before us, broken occasionally by a cluster of shrubs or pines growing on a slight rise in th...

Alfred Cleveland Bend was of the opinion that “bobolink” derived from an abbreviation of “Robert of Lincoln, a classic poem by William Culle...

Remember the old nursery rhyme about four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie? “When the pie was opened, the birds began to sing. Now wasn’...

About two weeks ago I was in southern New Jersey, in Cape May, visiting some family. On that May Monday, a “November” nor’easter struck the ...

In mid-April, I was in the Florida Keys looking for birds. I had certain “target birds” which I hoped to see. They fell into two categories....

The Dry Tortugas have a reputation for superb spring birding. In addition to the nesting colonies of tropical seabirds which I wrote about l...

Indigo Bunting made his first appearance this morning. I saw the White-crowned Sparrow along the Connecticut River yesterday. Today one stop...