A Warbler Charm Bracelet

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Male Canada warbler. When I was a kid, my grandma Thompson had a charm bracelet that she'd wear most days. I loved flipping the charms t...

Mystery Vireo: Your Best Guess

thumbnail At Magee Marsh two weekends ago, in addition to the myriad warblers present, there were several vireo species there, too. I photographed thi...

Lucky Shot: Chimney Swift

thumbnail Chimney swift. These images may not look like much via the Blogger interface, but I'm fairly happy about them. I shot this gliding chimn...

Meadows Gone to Hay

thumbnail Male bobolink. Lucky for our grassland-nesting birds, it's been a wet spring. So I suspect (or hope) that the meadowlarks and field spar...

Dew Haiku

thumbnail Dawn mist arising Grass heads sagging heavy dew Meadowlark sings clear

Lucky Shot: Black-throated Green

thumbnail While following colorful, feathered sprites around Magee Marsh last weekend, I managed to score a few lucky shots. This one I especially li...

The Reality of Warbler Photography

thumbnail Cameras purchased by bird watchers who want to become bird photographers should come with a warning sticker that says: Bird photography is n...

Warblers Up Close

thumbnail Bay-breasted warbler, probably an old female, at Magee Marsh. Having lived in Ohio for most of my birding life as a grown-up (relatively spe...

Yellowlegs ID

thumbnail Lesser (left) and greater (right) yellowlegs at the Tank Farm along Rt 7 near Newport, Ohio. During our Washington County, Ohio Big Day, the...

Finally, a Decent Bird Photo!

thumbnail It had to happen sooner or later—the happy convergence of a fabulously lovely bird, the rich light from the sun on a clear morning, and my c...

Nest Building & Mohair

thumbnail Nesting material dispenser filled and ready for action. One of the many blessings of being the editor of Bird Watcher's Digest is that I...

Zipline Birding in West Virginia

thumbnail Our group was put through our paces in ground school before we took the first zipline. What IS a zipline? A zipline, typically, is a set of ...

Wet Birds & Birders

thumbnail A (wet) male black-throated blue warbler on Sugar Creek Mountain. The rain came down on a regular basis from Tuesday evening through Sunday ...

Rainy Days of Birding

thumbnail A weather front followed me on my latest birding adventure. From Tuesday night through Sunday morning last week I was in West Virginia at Th...

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