In South Africa, the Eastern Cape’s coastline is known as the ‘Wild Coast’ due to its habit of smashing ships against its rocky shoreline during the winter … Read More
More ID help from Sibley
David A. Sibley, author and illustrator of the premier field guide to birds in North America has been on a roll recently, writing great identification … Read More
Crazy plumaged Green Heron
Check out this thread on birdphotographers.net for a strange looking heron photographed recently in Cuba. Cuba has the same suite of herons and egrets that … Read More
Cormorants of South Africa
Coming from Pennsylvania, I am only really ever prepared to see one species of cormorant on a typical basis; the Double-crested Cormorant. A winter trip … Read More
More Shiloh Rd Rough-legged Hawks
I stopped by the Shiloh Rd grasslands yesterday and a light morph roughleg was perched right in the interchange, oblivious to all the traffic around … Read More
Sibley on Scoters
David Sibley has put up a good post on identifying scoters by their silhouette. Why is this a good thing to learn? In David’s own … Read More
Dark morph Roughie
It’s been a really good year for Rough-legged Hawks so far. I have seen 6 in Centre County and 5 more across Pennsylvania and they … Read More
Aging Crested Caracaras
I am fascinated by birds of prey. They are by far, my favorite group of birds and whenever I am hawk-watching or out birding and … Read More
The State College Roughleg
Maybe you remember the adult intermediate-morph Rough-legged Hawk photos that Alex posted earlier this month? There is currently a thread in the North American Birders … Read More
Rough-legged Hawk – Centre County
For the past week a Rough-legged Hawk has been hanging around CREP fields along highway 220 in Centre County. The habitat is beautiful and loaded … Read More