Category Archives: Vermont Birding

By Tom Kalinowski Coinciding with the onset of bug season in the Adirondacks is the return of our insect eating birds. While nearly all of these perching birds have an attractive musical call that announces their presence, most maintain a … Continue reading →

Yesterday morning I drove up to Berlin Pond, a favorite local birding site, and immediately noticed several larger birds moving with the Tree Swallows over the water.  One was graceful, black-bodied, and flew down to the water seemingly to grab … Continue reading →

I took the kayak out this morning for a little exercise/birding here at Natchez State Park. There’s an impoundment that’s about the size of Wrightsville Reservoir where I’ll paddle this Spring and I saw many of the same bird species … Continue reading →

I started the day early yesterday with a life bird – a couple of Franklin’s Gulls with their pretty pinkish chests beside their cousin Laughing Gulls – and then added a Sedge Wren and a Seaside Sparrow as birds new … Continue reading →

After a muggy night at Goose Island in Rockport, TX, we are up early having coffee in the Airstream. The air conditioner quit last night, probably from over-heating. There are strong thunderstorms forecast all day and one cell just hit, … Continue reading →

Birders and others got to see a screening of the “Central Park Effect,” a movie about birds in New York’s Central Park at South by Southwest conference. Birder Jane Tillman wrote on TexBirds:Jeffrey Kimball, the director, is a birder and … Continue reading →

We have been at one of our favorite parks -Falcon State Park – which sits on Falcon Lake, perhaps the best bass fishing lake in the U.S. each morning, dozens of trucks hauling big bass rigs come rolling in with … Continue reading →

One of the big disappointments about Texas birding is the amount of trash you encounter along roadways – about anywhere. Many times I’ve spotted a Crested Caracara up ahead to find it’s only one more Walmart plastic bag tangled on … Continue reading →

One of the big disappointments about Texas birding is the amount of trash you encounter along roadways – about anywhere. Many times I’ve spotted a Crested Caracara up ahead to find it’s only one more Walmart plastic bag tangled on … Continue reading →

Every so often, we’ll hear a thunk as a bird hits one of our windows and while they usually fly off to the woods (perhaps to die), it is an awful feeling. We keep the drapes closed and have tried … Continue reading →