Murrmurrs

People are always assuming I'm a birder, but the evidence is circumstantial. For instance, they note that I often make comments about b...

I have a modest goal for myself in this year's Birdathon. As a group we will almost certainly find over a hundred species of birds in...

We've been pretty excited over here. We had Canadians coming! The real deal, authentic Canadians from Toronto, which is in Canadia so...

Hazel lives at Portland Audubon. If anyone loiters at this site for long enough, they might begin to think they know me. They might, for...

Most people look at birds with a hazy benevolence. They appreciate the robins and cardinals for being recognizable and they wish the other b...

There are two kinds of people in the world: regular, and birders. Usually, identification is easy. Birders are the ones wearing binoculars. ...

It's probably spring by now. Birds are picking fights with each other, and some of them are--why, I believe they are wrestling. Dave bui...

If you want to be a real bird-watcher, you'll need to get up earlier than you want to, strap on a bra for your binoculars, and assume a ...

This is your trusty reporter checking in from the New River Birding And Nature Festival , where I have been embedded for a week into a plato...

Today I am winging my way to a birding festival in West Virginia. "But Murr," you are saying, "you don't know poop about...