I was walking around my butterfly bush/sneezeweed/salvia garden and I happened across an Eastern Tiger Swallowtail, caught in a spiderweb. The spider was already working … Read More
Birthday Pelagic
Three hours after waking up and driving 140 miles east to the coast, we set off at 5 AM from the marina at Belmar, NJ. … Read More
Backyard Butterflies
All the plants I put in my hummingbird garden this spring are attracting good numbers of butterflies.The popular plants are the butterfly bush, sneezeweed, and … Read More
I and the Bird #82
The newest edition of IatB is online at Sycamore Canyon, hosted by Kathie, a birder/blogger from the Santa Rita Mountains in Arizona. Check it out!
Birding Octorara Lake
Octorara Lake in southern Lancaster County is an excellent spot for birding any time of the year, but the really great birding is the spring … Read More
Western vs Semipalmated Sandpiper
Much has been written about the identification of Semipalmated and Western Sandpipers. Most of it focuses on minutia, those little differences in plumage that are … Read More
Glossy Ibis band update
Looking through about 30 pictures of the Glossy Ibis allowed me to piece together the band number- 116-50010. I submitted this info to the Bird … Read More
Banded Glossy Ibis
At Conejohela Flats today, a young Glossy Ibis was hanging out on Avocet Point. Ignoring the seven birders walking around the flats, it foraged non-stop … Read More
Donate to Conservation: Sharpe’s Longclaw
The crew at 10000birds.com has started an effort to raise money for a survey of an endangered and endemic bird in Kenya; the Sharpe’s Longclaw. … Read More