Backyard Birding Time: Winter resident mocker!

In south-central Indiana, where I lived for 31 years, the last 21 of 'em at the same address, northern mockingbirds were a rare but poss...

Birding by Gear: MeoCap Binocular Eyepiece Covers

When a pair of MeoCaps first arrived for testing, I began wishing for an unusual thing: a good downpour in which to go out and bird with t...

Backyard Birding Time: Thank you, evergreens, for the Cooper's hawk!

Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana, an old friend once told me. How can it be December 13 already?! Nature gave me a g...

Backyard Birding Time: Junco!

New yard bird: Dark-eyed junco, seen yesterday evening in the tulip tree! It was rewarding to have such a lengthy and diverse yard list f...

Backyard Birding Time: Yard bird list: 17 species!

My yard list is up to 17 species!  They are, in chronological order: Northern Cardinal Carolina Wren Blue Jay American Crow Northern ...

Backyard Birding Time: Meet my old yard

This is the view from the kitchen window of the house I own in Bloomington, Indiana, soon to be for sale. Here's what this yard has...

Backyard Birding Time: Meet my new yard

Here's my new backyard, in Marietta, Ohio, as viewed from my kitchen window. Positives: A big ol' tulip tree!  Should be a good sour...