Snowed In

thumbnail On Tuesday morning, January 27, 2009, I was in Titusville, Florida enjoying this sunrise. By 2:25 pm that same day I was landing in Akron, O...

The Many Joys of Book Authorship

thumbnail I've never been so proud to be the author of a book as I was when I saw my friend Bart carrying a copy of The Young Birder's Guide ...

Red Sky At Morning...

thumbnail What was that old saying about the weather for sailors? Red sky at night, sailor's delight. Red sky at morning, sailors take warning? I ...

Coot Overload

thumbnail When one travels to Florida, one might reasonably expect to encounter large numbers of old coots. As someone who has already gotten mailed m...

Poem of the Great Blue

thumbnail Oh my little fish swim near in the cool shade of the mangrove clump there's nothing here for you to fear swim closer, little sugar lump ...

Florida Louisiana Heron

thumbnail When I was a kid, this bird was called the Louisiana heron. And dinosaurs walked the Earth. Now it's the tricolored heron. And the dinos...

More Winter

thumbnail A wise man wearing mukluks once told me: When the Adélie penguin comes out of its igloo and is immediately covered in wet snow it means that...

Thinking About Summer

thumbnail I'd like to call back Summertime and have her stay for just another month or so ... —Tom Rush Urge for Going

More 2008 Eye Candy

thumbnail Clouds of feeding Wilson's phalaropes at Antelope Island State Park in Utah. Here, in no particular order, are images for another instal...

More Death Rocket

thumbnail Another image of the intense look on the sharpie's face as he waited for breakfast to show up.

Return of the Death Rocket

thumbnail The sharp-shinned hawk has been visiting our feeders once every other day or so for the past few weeks. We watched him sit on our brushpile ...

Starting the Year Off Right

thumbnail For the past 20 years of my birding life I've tried to start each new year off with a good bird, an exciting field trip, or at least SOM...

Chilly Titmouse

thumbnail We've had single-digit temperatures on several recent days here in southeastern Ohio. On one such frigid morning, I took this photograph...

Happy New Year!

thumbnail Here is hoping that your 2009 has nothing but rosy sunsets (and maybe some rosy finches and roseate spoonbills, too.)

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