In this post you can access all my Birdtober content in one place, all 31 days of birdy poems and photos and facts! 1: Antillean Palm-Swift ...

  I don't know how the prompts for Birdtober were chosen, or why some are general families and some are super-specific. This last one is...

    Limpkin, May 1st, Frères, Haiti At 5:30 one morning in May my friend heard a haunting, wailing sound, some kind of swamp monster no doub...

  This is day twenty-nine of Birdtober, and I have to say I'm pretty proud of myself for posting daily poems all month, in the middle of...

  There are ten species of caracaras in the world, and I've seen two of them. I chose to write about the Crested Caracara, who, as you w...

  Today's prompt is the White Wagtail, a European bird, but I chose instead to write about the African Pied Wagtail. I was looking at so...

It's been so long since I've written a Reading Update post that I have sixteen books to report. I don't know if I'll get to ...

  Ring-necked Pheasant, from eBird.com     Pheasant It was late in the morning on July 7th along I-90 West in Aurora County, South Dakota, t...

  White-throated Dippers live in Europe and parts of Asia, always by running streams. They dive and catch food underwater. Elegant little br...

  There are twenty species of bowerbirds, and what they are best known for is in their name: bowers. They build and decorate elaborate art p...

    For today I chose the Black-crowned Palm-Tanager, a frequent visitor to my yard here in Haiti. They are such pretty and distinctive bird...

    Photo Source: eBird.com   American Woodcock Audubon begins with a description of American Woodcocks being attacked by “mischievous boys”...

  Tawny Frogmouth Source: eBird.com Large Frogmouth Source: eBird.com While researching this bird family, which includes fourteen species, I...

    Male unique, female sometimes misidentified, except by ducklings. ©Ruth Bowen Hersey Photo Source: eBird.com

  Scarlet Tanager In a forest in Georgia on a Friday afternoon in July we followed the Scarlet Tanager. Again and again and again we heard t...

  Yellow-bellied Sapsucker Yellow-bellied Hole drillers Cat callers Bug killers Red-headed Loud drummers Sap wells Feed hummers Noisy-poundi...

    Today's poem is a story from my childhood, and it's followed by a must-see video of the Blue-footed Booby's courting dance. ...

  Today I decided to write about the Vervain Hummingbird, an island endemic. There are two subspecies, one on Jamaica and one on Hispaniola....

  I've seen the Gray Catbird in the US, but although eBird says they are sometimes found here in Haiti, I haven't seen one here. I w...

  There are 150 species of cuckoos in the world. I've chosen to write about two that we have here in Haiti, both of which I have seen a ...