Laura's Birding Blog

When I started "Laura’s Birding Blog" in 2007, Blogger (owned by Google) took care of sending emails to subscribers. They disconti...

Flaco, the escaped Eurasian Eagle-Owl in Central Park, NY. Photo by  Rhododendrites, CC BY-SA 4.0  via Wikimedia Commons I recently received...

On Saturday morning, in advance of a big snowstorm, my friend Erik Bruhnke and I drove to Superior, Wisconsin, to see a small group of Euras...

At this very moment, people in my neck of the woods are digging out from a foot of new snow, with even more predicted later this week. Never...

Every year I celebrate March 2 as “Chickadee Day," the anniversary of my seeing my first chickadee in 1975. This year, several people e...

There may be a couple of feet of snow on the ground and more in the forecast, but ornithological spring has sprung. As of March 1, the birds...

One of my favorite poems is Robert Frost’s The Tuft of Flowers , especially the lines:  ‘Men work together,’ I told him from the heart. ‘Whe...