Laura's Birding Blog

Last year, Storey published a book of mine, The Love Lives of Birds , in which we highlighted 35 species and their different approaches to a...

  My backyard is still buzzing with hummingbird activity, but I haven’t seen an adult male in two days, and numbers of adult females and you...

In my blogpost about out-of-range hummingbirds, I quoted Scott Weidensaul, who noted that the out-of-range birds that appear in the East usu...

One of the first things we birders in the eastern half of the continent learn is that the only hummingbird that ranges here is the Ruby-thro...

The seasonality of life can be entirely different within just one single species, sometimes varying by age, sex, or both.  Take Ruby-throate...

Red-eyed Vireos will be passing through from now into September. It’s still hot out there, but the dog days of summer officially ended on Au...

One gloomy November back in the 80s, the sun came out just once, on my birthday as it happened. I remember how melancholy that month was, a ...

Yesterday, I got an email from someone named Dan who was in the middle of a nighthawk emergency. I virtually never give out my home phone nu...

I’m writing this on July 18, 2021, at my place in Duluth, Minnesota. There’s not a cloud in the sky, but the sky isn’t blue—more of a murky ...