Laura's Birding Blog

For the past three years I've been involved in the annual birding festival for the Discovery Center in Manitowish Waters, Wisconsin. It...

Wow--I've been looking through my photos and it's going to take forever for me to get them all "up." But here are a few o...

I'm at the first rest stop in Iowa. Iowa is one of the most civilized states--they provide free wireless Internet at their rest stops! ...

Little Dog on the Prairie Photon and I have had such a wonderful time in Oklahoma! There was a bit of rain (well, 7 inches in 2 or 3 hours ...

I'm so excited I could pop! I'm in Des Moines, Iowa, after driving since noon, and barring fierce storms should be in the Wichita M...

Can you pick out the Lesser Scaup? I'm not sure if I'm remembering all the birds we saw this morning, but my total is only 30 specie...

Oh, wow! I got up at 3:30 this morning to head down to Solon Springs to the Sharp-tailed Grouse viewing blind . It was the best ever! The...

We had another lovely day for a warbler walk, and 43 species, not even counting the peacocks and peahen that were perched up high at the zoo...

One of the problems with spending so much of my life trying to educate the world about birds is that it sort of sets me up to be a know-it-a...