Laura's Birding Blog

Part I: A relevant but tortuous history of my love affair with the Disney version of Sleeping Beauty. In 1959, when I was seven yea...

Today, I turned 67 years old. That’s not quite double the age I was when I started producing “For the Birds.” I was 34 and a half on May ...

(From a For the Birds program originally recorded for December 2, 2009. ) Blue Jays are one of the most conspicuous North American bir...

Three weeks ago, fall colors were at a peak, my backyard trees and suet feeders were filled with Yellow-rumped Warblers, and my lawn was ...

(This blogpost is from a radio program from October 29, 2008) Every now and then when I’m walking through the north woods, deep in thou...

(This is the transcript of a radio program I produced November 13, 2007. It has interesting information about Snow Buntings. Tragically, I d...

I took all these photos at Almansor Park in California in 2013, at first light, which is why the lighting is so gold.  In 2013, I did ...

In November 1988 when my children were still little, Russ had a meeting in Washington, D.C., so we planned a family adventure around it, ...

(This is the text and photos from my recent TEDxBemidji talk. I took all of the photos except the title poster (Russ took that photo of me)...