Laura's Birding Blog

One of my friends, Kathie Brown from Maine, alerted me to a fascinating episode of Animal Planet’s “North Woods Law,” which this season is ...

A couple of times in the 1980s, on my wedding anniversary, I talked about bird hearts. Today isn’t my anniversary or anything, but I came ac...

Back in the olden days, until I was was almost ten years old, Minnesota’s state bird was the goldfinch. But in 1949, someone got wind of the...

On May 9, 1975, I saw two beautiful birds on the Michigan State campus, new for my lifelist, a pair of Brown Thrashers. The rich rusty color...

I pride myself on knowing a lot about birds. But as I learned long ago, what I know is always subject to change. Last week, the summary of a...

When: Saturday, August 1, 2020, 7:00 pm CDT Where: Laura's Zoom Conference Room My Patreon supporters (and people who contribute back-c...

Last December I had cataract surgery, first on my non-dominant right eye, and then two weeks later, on my left eye. During the fourteen days...

In the early 1990s, after I'd been a wildlife rehabber for several years, I started working on my ill-fated Ph.D. program, under one of ...

I’m still archiving transcripts from old "For the Birds" programs (I'm up to 2,900 programs with transcripts available through...

"Dad," the male Great Blue Heron who nested in Sapsucker Woods every year from 2009-2014. This is the last photo I took of him, in...