Laura's Birding Blog

This morning started exactly the way the forecast said it would, with thick fog. So despite the fact that the forecast was also calling ...

On Monday, I was working on the computer, not very productively because I kept getting distracted by the bird activity in my yard, when o...

Spring is proceeding nice and deliberately this year. The first orioles and hummingbirds have shown up in my neighborhood, but not in big...

Of the baker’s dozen books I’ve written in the past quarter century, I think the most important is my 101 Ways to Help Birds , which was...

Park Point was hopping this morning, especially with birders! At most, our group had about 35 people, but there were still an order of ...

This morning it was still cold enough that I kept my gloves on for our whole spring warbler walk. The trees are still pretty bare and mos...

In 2013, when I did my Conservation Big Year, one of the birds I was most focused on seeing was the Lesser Prairie-Chicken. I saw and hea...

Daniel Klem, a genuine giant in ornithology and bird conservation. Photo from in April 2004. One of my favorite quotes is from Isaac...

Hokey Smokes! What a delightful morning! We had our biggest turnout of birders (22 at max) and our biggest turnout of birds, both in terms o...