Laura's Birding Blog

A few weeks ago, Bob Hinkle, my treasured mentor from my college days, whose class got me so interested in nature that my husband told his m...

Back in June 1998, I was brought a newly fledged Pileated Woodpecker. The little guy—well, the big little guy, because he was already full s...

I fell in love with the American Birding Association’s Bird of the Year, the Pileated Woodpecker, on Christmas 1974, when I saw Roger Tory P...

 

I’ve been thinking a lot about dinosaurs in the past few weeks. Partly this is because my baby grandson Walter has several onesies decorated...

Laura Ingalls Wilder’s book, The Long Winter , is set in southeastern Dakota Territory in what is now De Smet, South Dakota, during the seve...

  This year, the American Birding Association named the Pileated Woodpecker their Bird of the Year. I’ve been going through old For the Bird...

  We’re in the midst of a major irruption of finches into southern and central states where these northern birds seldom venture in very larg...

Even the statues at Disney World look at the birds.  In January 2003, my son Joe started working at Walt Disney World, and we started going ...

The year 2020 was horrible on many fronts, but the bird chosen by the American Birding Association as their Bird of the Year, the Cedar Waxw...