Laura's Birding Blog

When I was a college elementary education major, one of the most valuable things I learned was to never tell kids how easy learning som...

This hummingbird is taking a rest after filling up at my feeder. S/he is all fluffed up, so appears very fat. "Lofting" the fea...

I’ve been looking forward to September 9 for months—it was the day the 2014 State of the Birds report was due to come out. This is the...

All the photos shown in this blog entry were taken within 4 seconds when the bird was "resting" but looking every which way ...

I’ve been reading Mark Twain’s autobiography—I got the hardbound book a few years ago, and have now been listening to it as a “books on...

An old Hawk Ridge owl decoy from 2005 When new visitors come up to Hawk Ridge in Duluth, they’re often mystified by the two owl dec...

Lisa and friends On September 2, I spent a couple of hours up at Hawk Ridge with my friend Lisa. I didn’t get up there this August, w...

View from my desk I’ve been spending more time at my desk than I like lately, and it is especially frustrating with fall migration kicki...

On September 1, 1980, which happened to fall on a Labor Day just like this year, my brother called me up first thing in the morning—o...