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It may not be often that any of us think about sharing a close personal and intimate contact with a tree. Yet every minute of every day all oxygen-breathing creatures on planet Earth, including us humans, breathe deep into our lungs the oxygen that...

It may still be rather chilly and windy most days so that it may not feel so much like spring, but birds are returning. We were rather surprised to see the distinctive wing shape of an osprey already a week ago floating in the wind over the south...

Brother Andrew texted us the other day with a question about identifying an odd-looking blackbird. Could it be a starling or a red-winged blackbird, he asked? He went on to ponder as to whether a young red-winged blackbird would look more like a...

Birders often talk about their favorite birding “patches.” By that they mean the local places that they regularly frequent. Often these are not the well-known birding hotspots but some small park, preserve, or other location that is close enough and...

During these still-cold days of March, we celebrate any of the earliest returning birds of spring—red-winged blackbirds, American woodcock, turkey vultures, perhaps robins in your neighborhood (though there are some around various parts of the state...

After the wild swings of temperature that we all endured this winter, it is hard to imagine that spring could really be in the cards. But there is no stopping the seasonal changes that come about from Earth’s rotation around the sun. The days are...

Each morning for the last week or so, our neighborhood has seemed to echo in bird song. The cheerful “PEA-ter, PEA-ter, PEA-ter” of a resident tufted titmouse has been serenading us on our dog walks. Sometimes a song sparrow joins the chorus, and...

Seagull. It’s a term that we probably all grew up hearing and using. Most people still do. Birders, on the other hand, never say “seagull.” In fact, when many birders hear the term “seagull” are prone to utter the infamous pronouncement, “There is...

We don’t want to sound too boastful but it appears our prediction about where the Steller’s sea-eagle was going to be seen again was right. A few columns ago ( https://www.boothbayregister.com/article/sea-eagle-invisibility-shows-why-study-bird-...

We feel quite fortunate to have been viewing regularly, since late December, one or more of our favorite winter hawks—the rough-legged hawk. The bird (or birds) have become part of the scenery we enjoy as we bird our way along a large, open farmland...