Still Life With Birder

Taking advantage pf a warm and sunny day yesterday, I went off to scout what birds might be around my two favourite local, rural parks:  Ol...

Now that my sister & bro-in-law have a winter home in Tucson, AZ, the cat & I travel down for a yearly visit ...  It was about th...

Xanthocephalus xanthocephalus or Yellow-headed Blackbird or as Pete Dunne calls it 'Saffron-hooded Cacophony'.  Sums it up. N...

Today, February 2nd, is  1.  Groundhog Day.  We are in the middle of cold and snowy winter where I live, so rodents of any size are stil...

I've never really been a 'night person'.  I go to bed early and I get up at Insane O'Clock in the morning.  I love my morni...

One morning last May, a couple of very young Eastern Fox Squirrels ( Sciurus niger ) were fooling around in the elm tree outside my kitchen...

So what's famous about an Eastern Phoebe ( Sayornis phoebe) ? It isn't fabulously coloured.  Rather, it definitely fits in th...

This is another of our little birds of winter.  Like chickadees, nuthatches are year-round residents here. It is always a pleasure to see o...

I suppose it is warm somewhere today - it isn't here.  I'm not leaving for my winter vacation for another six weeks and I'm tir...

Happy New Year, Everyone!  And, what better way to start a year than a post about my favourite little birds - Black-capped Chickadees ( Poe...