Laura's Birding Blog

Every now and then I wish I were a bird. Not so I could fly high in the sky, above the clouds, or look down upon the world from an aerie—...

In 2009, when I was armed with my very first good camera and was working full time at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, I took daily walks ...

Every year, with rhythmic if not quite clocklike predictably, my Facebook friends complain about the spring weather—there’s still too muc...

I'm creating notecards and 8x10 photos as premiums for people who have donated on my Go Fund Me campaign at appropriate levels. I have ...

I’m writing this on my brand new computer, and tomorrow being a very important day to me, I’m going to place an order for the camera lens...

This is a transcript of my podcast for April 25, 2018. You can hear it (with the children's voices) here, on the program page . ...

Last week I spent an evening in Ashland, Wisconsin, at the Northern Great Lakes Visitors Center, giving a talk about warblers for the Fr...

Sometimes we have encounters with birds that seem utterly wonderful and amazing, even if the bird we encountered isn’t our favorite bird ...

I just got an email from my good friend Val Cunningham, who has written several fine books about birds as well as a column for the Minnea...

Back in 1982, Russ and I left Duluth for Arizona at the end of March and didn’t return home until April 17. When we left, we had lots of ...