Welcome, welcome! I'm so happy to have you here in my little corner of the Web. This post goes live on Thanksgiving Day, and so I'm ...

I'm hosting next week! My husband and I are hosting Thanksgiving at our house on Saturday (this isn't a local holiday, and Thursday ...

Book #74 of the year was Cassandra in Reverse , by Holly Smale. This book wasn't what I thought it was going to be, and it kept on surp...

It's not Poetry Friday -- more like Poetry Saturday -- here in Uganda. (Here's yesterday's roundup. ) I'm taking a break fro...

Here are all the Birdtober posts from 2023! I'm also including links to my Birdtober content from 2021 and 2022. I've hardly written...

Source: eBird.com The Spotted Owl is best known by non-birding people as the poster child for environmentalist excesses. In the eighties and...

  Source: eBird.com Green, rust, and orange warrior speeds back and forth, guards territory   Here   are some other hummingbird poems from ...

For last year's Artist's Choice, I wrote about the Shoebill , but mentioned I had considered the Hadada Ibis, whose call is a big pa...

Book #67 of 2023 was The Trackers , by Charles Frazier. I will always read whatever Frazier writes, and I have reviewed some of his other b...

  Source: eBird.com Of all the pink birds during Birdtober this year, this one is the pinkest. Pinker than the Pink Robin . Pinker than the ...

    Source: eBird.com The official name for the Blue Penguin is Little Penguin. They are also called fairy penguins. They live in Australia ...

Source: eBird.com Color changing, Threat displaying, Kneel for drinking, Green egg laying, Grunting, hissing, Throat inflating, Panting, boo...

Source: eBird.com   Many bird species show sexual dimorphism, meaning that males and females look different. But the Mandarin Duck has an ex...

Source: eBird.com Seeing one of these birds must be quite an experience. Some things to consider: their wingspan is between 3 ft 10 in to 4 ...

 Source: eBird.com The Black-headed Gull bobs its brown head, calls out “kwup,” and eats everything. ©Ruth Bowen Hersey

Source: eBird.com Red-tipped wings, letters dipped in scarlet sealing wax; like feathered northern messages, trilling.   ©Ruth Bowen Hersey ...

  This bird's Latin name is Luscinia svecica , with the second part meaning "Swedish." It got its name because the colors were...

Source: eBird.com Source: eBird.com Photogenic bird Posing where he looks the best With rowan berries ©Ruth Bowen Hersey Be sure to visit ou...

Source: eBird.com Little pink and grey Denizen of neat moss nest, Fuzzy ornament ©Ruth Bowen Hersey

Source: eBird.com   These birds live in Southern Africa; the Cape in the name refers to the Cape of Good Hope. It was first described in pri...