How to Count Birds at a Bird Feeder

1) First of all, find out if you live in our Audubon Count Circle. To give you a rough idea, our circle’s epicenter is at County Roads 20 and 12, and extends for a radius of 7.5 miles in all directions. If you think your feeder is within the count circle, text, call...

American Robin (Turdus migratorious)

Our woods are alive with bird chatter as I write. A large flock of robins have dropped in and are hanging out in our woods and they have a lot to say! They forage through the leaf litter, peruse the branches for a rare berry still on the branch, and drink from our...

Book Review: “Vesper Flights”

I have been leisurely savoring a diet of essays from British author, Helen Macdonald’s new book, Vesper Flights since I received it for my birthday earlier this month. For many of us interested in the outdoors, there was some special, relatively wild, area we could...