Birds on the brain

Emails were flying around over the long weekend about a pair of Warbler Vireos nesting in Raleigh.  I really wanted to see these birds,...

The Cerulean Warbler is a special bird.  Not only is it the only member of the huge wood-warbler family that is entirely blue and white, ...

Over the weekend I investigated the suspicious rumors of Yellow-crowned Night-Herons nesting in marshes around Durham and Chapel Hill...

It has been a whirlwind the past few weeks with birding, term papers and field work…and now I find myself finally updating this blog...

I woke up early this morning to investigate a possible Mountain Bluebird in a Fayetteville gated community with two of Durham's most fa...

To give my last post a bit more context, the Black-browed Albatross will be only the fifth formally accepted record of the species for t...

Black-browed Albatross; pelagic off Cape Hatteras on Feb.18, 2012 Full Adult; the first adult of the species photographed in the US? ...

When I heard from Ali that there was a Western Tanager visiting a feeder in Durham, I couldn't resist going to see it. Western Tanag...

When John Voigt invited me down to Southport to lead a couple of field trips for the Carolina Bird Club, I enthusiastically agreed. La...