The archive of posts from the original Born Again Bird Watcher blog.
After a year on the road crossing and recrossing North America on his quest ot encounter as many butterflies as possible and thus establish the Butterfly Big Year, Robert Michael Pyle has finally returned. His final post, dated January 12, 2009, that capped the blog he wrote detailing his adventures over the course of this […]
Perhaps the best photo I took during the entire period of being snowbound during the “Great Snowstorm of 2008,” or at least the one with which I am the most pleased, was this one of a Northern Flicker, Colaptes auratus, red-shafted form. With her feathers raised to help insulate her from the cold and the […]
Those of us living in the Pacific Northwest of the United States are quite accustomed to seeing ghost birds while we are walking in the forest during wintertime. While strolling among the massive trunks of the Douglas Firs and the Western Hemlocks we not infrequently get a quick glimpse of what we think is a […]
A year-round resident of the Pacific Northwest, primarily of the higher altitude evergreen forests, the Varied Thrush, Ixoreus naevius, is a regular visitor to the lowlands during the coldest months of winter While many may wax poetic over the flame orange color of the male Blackburnian Warbler, and justly so, I’ll take the glowing ember […]