Snowy Days & Getting Fooled
Every so often when I am out birding or walking around, something catches my eye that necessitates a double take. Whether it is something that seems interesting...
Bird of the Week: Black-capped Chickadee
The Black-capped Chickadee is a bird that most birders or outdoor enthusiasts in the northern half of North America are familiar with, whether they know it or...
Flaco’s Wild Ride
I was fortunate enough to live in NYC during the commotion that was the first week when Eurasian Eagle-owl, Flaco, escaped his enclosure from the Central Park...
Bird of the Week: Bald Eagle
Bird of the Week or at this point every six weeks or so. A God Bless America one if you will. Bald Eagles have been synonymous with...
Bird of the Week: Canada Goose
The Canada Goose (not Canadian but who cares because I am often guilty of this too) is a bird that we all know in North America and...
Snow Geese, Orange Discoloration, and their Arctic Habitat
Recently, as I have been visiting my local birding hotspots I wanted to be more intentional about not solely counting what species I was seeing but stopping...
Struggles With Shorebirds: Intro
I am sure this will be a multiple-part post about shorebirds and their incredibly hard-to-decipher field marks. I don’t know if the difficulty of identifying certain species...
Hot Limpkin Winter 2023 & Chasing Rarities
It’s Hot Limpkin Summer Winter in New Jersey! During the Summer of 2022, Limpkins erupted from South Florida and the Neotropics to become the first records in...
My First (Almost) Two Years Birding
So I have been birding for almost two years now. I came into this hobby with a love of birds and nature but with very little intimate...