Our Two Nests!

Here at Bird Watcher's Digest we're intently watching two different—vastly different—birds' nests. One of them has growing nest...

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Red-shouldered Hawk Nest!

Red-shouldered hawk (this image was taken in Mississippi). All of us at Bird Watcher's Digest are just as giddy as expectant parents. T...

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On the Road This Spring/Summer

On my birding trips, everybody gets to do the Life Bird Wiggle. After taking some time off between book projects I'll be back on the roa...

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My Best Birthday Bird

Today is my birthday. And it's not just any birfday. It's my 50th. Funny I don't FEEL 50, and I'm not even sure how the time...

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Spring Observations in Bleak Winter

I am working from the farm for the next 10 days or so, trying to get some writing done on the next book project. It's a bleak, raw day h...

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New TBL Podcast Episode: Snowy Owl Invasion!

Episode 35 of my podcast This Birding Life is now available (free as always) over at Podcast Central on the Bird Watcher's Digest webs...

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Snowy Owling Adventure

My most recent snowy owl was in the Jurong Bird Park in Singapore in September 2010. Yes, it was inside a zoo in Asia! Not really thrillin...

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Thinking About My Bird of the Year 2011

It's been an incredible year of bird watching. As I think back on some of the sweet birds I've seen—some of them lifers, some just o...

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The 2011 Big Sit Part IV: A Broken Record

Here's the final chapter in the 2011 Big Sit report from the Indigo Hill Birding Tower, home of The Whipple Bird Club. As the day wore o...

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The 2011 Big Sit, Part III

Moon at midnight of the 2011 Big Sit. We left our story last week with me racing (carefully) through the foggy and winding country roads fro...

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The 2011 Big Sit, Part II: Schlepping and Prepping

Fog hugs the New River Gorge Bridge. Saturday, October 8 dawned cool and clear in southern West Virginia where I was scheduled to lead a bir...

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