my bird-feeding basics (and favorite feeders)
NOBODY’S GOING TO STARVE around here, even if I take down the bird feeder from April to Thanksgiving or so. [read more…]
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bird gardening: powerhouse fruiting plants, with andy brand
IT’S A CLOSE CALL for me and my friend Andy Brand: Do we like plants best, or birds (or butterflies [read more…]
birding by ear, with nathan pieplow: how to listen to what birds say
EVERY SPRING I promise to learn to recognize a few more voices—bird voices—to tune in more observantly to the members [read more…]
birdnote q&a: in mothering among birds, a mix of styles
A MOURNING DOVE waddled across the backyard, squatted down, laid an egg, sat for a half-hour—and then, goodbye. So much [read more…]
my wildlife tree, or snag: a lively progress report
IF YOU BUILD IT, they will come–or at least if you don’t knock it down, they will. I promise. That’s [read more…]
counting ‘feeder birds’ and sharing my data, 2017 edition
I’LL TELL YOU MINE, if you tell me yours–and then how about we all tell eBird.org (or join the upcoming [read more…]
vintage extreme birding: kenn kaufman’s ‘kingbird highway’
I HAD A Big Week last week—at least in the armchair sense—reading about extreme birder Kenn Kaufman’s Big Year of [read more…]
mapping your yard, with the habitat network’s rhiannon crain
I PARTICIPATE in multiple citizen-science projects, counting birds with eBird.org and Project FeederWatch, or hosting National Moth Week events in [read more…]
understanding bird migration, with cornell lab of o’s frank la sorte
I WILL MISS THEM, after the last hummingbird passes through the garden sometime in September, continuing its long trip southward, [read more…]
notable natives, from mountain laurel to milkweed, with andy brand
THE LONGER I GARDEN, the more I see plants as science teachers, bringing nature into focus by playing out its [read more…]
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