Laura's Birding Blog

From my very earliest memories I’ve loved birds. This is connected with my grandmother, whose name was also Laura. She died when I was very ...

Before my children were school aged, I didn’t feed squirrels in the backyard so they wouldn't approach the kids expecting treats before ...

Me counting hawks at the main overlook around 1991 When Russ was finishing up his Ph.D. and considering job offers in 1980, one possibility ...

I’m behind on several deadlines, so Saturday morning, after I drank my coffee while plotting out my calendar for the coming week and then st...

Back when I started feeding hummingbirds when we moved to Duluth in 1981, my mother-in-law told me her ironclad rule—always take in hummingb...

   Our Alaska tour in June was the first trip Russ and I took since our grandson Walter was big enough to notice we were missing, so we of c...