Friends, I must close up shop for about ten days so will suspend posts whilst I deal with some business.  When I return to this page, I ho...

From time to time we experience the visits of those delightful Blue Jays.  They're not apparently regular visits but they are intense ...

I suppose it can only be expected that a diligent bird feeder will have regrets, one day.  And that comes in summer when the adult birds t...

As readers know, the Carolina Wrens made quite a splash this summer.  They made the nesting story of the season by raising two broods in o...

Our very impressive cardinal season continues to the gates of fall.  We have a good many birds this year, proving that we have a good habi...

The growing collection of wildflowers has been a great draw for wildlife, especially birds.  And as these flowers propagate they are provi...

A friend recently wrote saying he'd been hearing an unfamiliar bird call in his suburban neighborhood.  He decided he had a Harris Haw...

I think that the shortest visit of any of our migrants is that of the Gray Catbird.  They show up  in April and are regularly gone in Augu...

Since I installed a little water garden in the backyard (merely a half barrel wrapped in fabric, with a lizards tail plant) I have seen in...

Ever since I caught the attention of a rogue female Mallard in the scratch ground a few weeks, I have been on high alert for these pesky c...

One of the most striking things about the current hummingbird season is the surprising amity between birds.  I am used to one particular h...

Last week we did some touring, one the stops being a charming museum of medieval art in New York City, the Cloisters.  As is my habit I ke...

As the summer has mounted we are seeing ever more hummingbird activity, especially in the native wildflower garden.  The Bee Balm (shown) ...

We have a Barred Owl in the area, and the neighbors are talking.  Or at least the last few neighbors I spoke with.  They brought up the su...

Hello friends! I am back at post and observing what's out there.  And what was out there this past Sunday was a fledge at the Colonial...

The drama at the Williamsburg Bird Bottle is reaching its climax.  There is a definite active nest (for the second time in 2014!) and I kn...

How about one more bird bather?  Well, sure!  And here is a fine shot of one of the more vigorous bath users---a Brown Thrasher.  All of t...

Yesterday's post on bird bath use got me remembering some of the fine bird bath photos I have collected over the years with the Wingsc...

I figured it wouldn't be a great matter of time before the first bird made use of my new, third bird bath (out in sunnier digs equip...

At last!  I have proof that the hummingbirds are making visits to my nectar feeders.  For whatever reasons I have had terrible luck obse...