Six of us went to Mason County and birded private property April 29. We were thoroughly impressed and all had a good time. The weather was nice and mild after a rainy stormy Friday, and birds were everywhere. We saw colorful birds: the Summer Tanagers, Vermilion Flycatchers, and Painted Buntings. We saw both males and […]

Big Country Audubon met Thursday night for our May social meeting. If you were not there, you missed a great meal, good company, and excellent birds! The Painted Buntings were at every feeder (and that’s a lot of Painted Buntings). But what was extremely exciting were the two Indigo Buntings that showed up AND a […]

The past several days (OK, past several weeks) I’ve been noticing my garden is full of weeds, you know the kind of weeds that grow really tall and have these little yellow flowers on top. When they go to seed they produce these white feathery tuffs that blow in the wind. I really should get […]

The Inca Doves are growing in their nest and will soon fledge. Pictured above are the babies on 4-21-06; their penfeathers had emerged but the barbs of the feathers hadn’t fluffed out yet. They were still covered with lots of baby down. While photographing the mother on the nest I waited for her to leave […]

John English’s photos are now ready to view. Click here to see his birds. If you like what you see, just keep in mind the real photos are so much more detailed than what a computer screen depicts. One of the photos is enlarged to give you an idea of how stunning his artwork is. […]

If you’re an avid birder and have the weekends to bird, Saturdays are problematic. So many places to bird; so many possiblities await. How do you choose which place to bird? What if you choose to look for shorebirds and then discover a few days later that passerines were popping up in the woodlots and […]

A few weeks ago a friend sent me this picture of an odd-looking bird seen on the ground below the office window. Try to match this bird’s plumage to one in a field guide and you find it’s an impossible task; there is no such bird unless you know about albinism and leucisim. (It’s a […]

And you think your job is boring? Try being a bluebird mama, sitting on eggs, day after day waiting for them to hatch. It will take this female bluebird approximately two weeks to incubate her eggs. Only the female developes a brood patch, an area of skin on the belly where there are extra blood […]