All around us are potentially great experiences that go unrecognized. Sometimes they involve new places or things, and sometimes familiar places under different circumstances. An example of the latter is the world at night. We are outdoors longer with … Continue reading
Category Archives: birding
Ah, Spring. There is nothing more satisfying to me than planting- flowers, vegetables, trees, shrubs- anything. Not that I have any great skill at it, and I know I don’t have the artistic eye of a landscape designer by any … Continue reading
There have been some large waves of birds migrating north lately, especially last Wednesday night. Thursday morning brought new songs to the yard – more and more robins, phoebes, yellow-bellied sapsuckers, golden-crowned kinglets, flocks of flickers, all joining the swans … Continue reading
Twenty years ago, about 1,600 people participated in the first Breeding Bird Atlas done in Wisconsin. Wisconsin has long been a leader in the fields of ornithology and citizen science, and at that time, few states had complete breeding bird … Continue reading
Here we are, late in February and still in the dead of winter it seems. By now we’ve become pretty good at adapting our behavior to deal with the cold- long underwear, warm boots, heated seats in our cars- humans … Continue reading