Wingin’ It: Keeping up with the birds of the season
I saw 22 different types of birds on a recent four-hour Wednesday morning birding trip led by Bill Gette of Joppa Flats Audubon Center…
Wingin’ It: Birding through Costa Rica
A couple of years ago a friend, Jane, suggested getting a small group together sometime for a trip to Costa Rica. Jane has a…
Wingin’ It: Winter wanderers
Now that most of our summer visiting birds have left for warmer climes, we are seeing the return of the birds that summered and…
Wingin’ It: Trees gain, while birds lose, color
Fall migration is well under way and most of our summer visiting birds have headed south for the winter. Some go to the Carolinas…
Wingin’ It: Birding along the shore and in the marshes
Last week my wife, Pam, and I spent a couple of relaxing days at a friend’s cottage in East Boothbay overlooking the Damarsicotta River.…
Wingin’ It: Birds of summer
Around the farm some of the barn swallows have fledged two sets of young and just this week one of our pairs of bluebirds…
Wingin’ It: Early summer birds
Early summer is an active time around the farm for the birds. All have nested, some have already fledged, and others are still sitting…
Wingin’ It: Spring is here … at least the birds think so
Red-winged blackbirds were our first spring arrival in the beginning of March. At least one pair of these birds usually nests among the cattails…
Wingin’ It: A birding adventure in the Galapagos Islands
My recent trip to the Galapagos Islands with my wife, Pam, was certainly one of our most memorable birding adventures which, in addition to…
Wingin’ It: Birds about the winter neighborhood
We seem to be in the winter doldrums in terms of major bird activity. The redpolls are still around and the usual goldfinches, house…
