Photo Source: eBird.com   Today's prompt bird, the Philippine Eagle, is one of the most endangered and rarest birds of prey. It has some...

When you search "Turtle-Dove" on eBird, seven species come up. There's the Mauritius, Rodrigues, European, Dusky, Adamawa, Ori...

  The description of this YouTube video says that the sound of the Black Drongo is "one of the most common sounds of birding in India....

  Photo Source: eBird.com Yesterday I remarked that the bird of the day, the Pileated Woodpecker, appeared in four of my checklists. The Saf...

  I have Pileated Woodpeckers on four of my checklists, all in 2021. Two of those checklists were in Missouri, one in Kentucky, and one in T...

  Photo Source: eBird.com I watched a video of a Razorbill who went off course ten years ago and ended up in Florida. Before 2012, there wer...

Photo Source: eBird.com If you look up "Conure" on eBird, you won't find anything, because the word refers to a class of birds...

  Photo Source: eBird.com Surprise! I managed to write a Birdtober poem every day this week. I'll add links to them later in this post. ...

  Photo Source: https://kidadl.com/facts/animals/zebra-finch-facts I chose the Zebra Finch photo here to illustrate this Australian bird bec...

  Photo Source: eBird   Twenty-six years ago, my husband and I spent Christmas in northern Japan, and we were taken to see swans that had mi...

    There are over 350 species of hummingbirds in the world. We don't have them where I live, though we have sunbirds, which are reminis...

Photo Source: eBird.com   Why are these guys called Macaroni Penguins? Here’s eBird’s explanation: “Disappointingly, named for the resemblan...

Book #44 of the year was  Liturgy of the Ordinary: Sacred Practices in Everyday Life , by Tish Harrison Warren. I really enjoyed this book, ...

  Photo Source: eBird.com   When we lived in Paraguay, I often saw three Campo Flickers all together. Rarely did I see one or two of them; i...

Photo Source: https://www.raising-happy-chickens.com/why-have-rooster.html I love that the first prompt of Birdtober this year is Rooster. B...

Hello, Poetry Friday friends! It has been a while since I've managed to post anything for Poetry Friday. The last time was in July, and ...

Book #37 of the year was The Memory Thief , by Emily Colin. I kept reading this book, about a man who dies in an avalanche but then is some...

Carol Varsalona is our host today and has asked us to reflect on the way summer nurtures our souls. I decided to go (mostly) wordless and s...

  This week, my total number of cycling miles since I joined Strava in April clicked over to 1000. ( Strava is an app to keep track of athle...

I'm in the United States during this warm, dry summer. Some of the best moments in the last few weeks have involved friends, family, bir...