Savvy birders are meteorologically astute. They keep an eye out for what may be arriving with the next airmass, wrung out of the skies by … Read More
The evolution of county listing
I came to county listing quite innocently, at least in my mind. After college, I spent my summers doing surveys for the now published 2nd … Read More
2012 PAMC eBird results
[dc]E[/dc]ncouraging Pennsylvania birders to enter their PAMC data into eBird was a definite success. After two weeks, over 800 checklists were submitted, for a total of … Read More
Winter Raptor Survey Results for PA – 2012
Greg Grove sent out the following message concerning the results of this past winter’s PA winter raptor surveys (WRS). Greg has allowed me to post … Read More
Birds to Look For – Centre Co, PA (Last week of March)
This coming weekend marks the beginning of the last week of March. April is so close and beginning in just the first week of April, … Read More
2012 Yard Contest – February results
For February we are now up to 37 entries in the yard contest. People are doing pretty good in all the categories, especially those with … Read More
Centre County Waterfowl Report 2/29/12
Many of us here in Centre County have brought up the idea of trying to coordinate efforts on rainy days when waterfowl could get forced … Read More
The American Kestrel story
American Kestrels have experienced some pretty severe declines in parts of their range. This was most recently brought to my attention while reading Clay Sutton’s … Read More
Jo Hays Vista – October 2011 Report
On the first day of October, we had counted 2048 migrate past Jo Hays Vista, the best fall flight at  this site ever recorded. I … Read More
Blue-headed Vireos on the decline?
There has been a lot of talk on the PABirds listserv regarding a possible decline of Blue-headed Vireos based on the scarcity of individual sightings … Read More