Bird News
Somehow, birds that should not be here sometimes are here. According to the books these birds should be found far away. Then one shows up. The...
The bird sightings for the Island are confirming the prediction that there will be many winter finches flying south this fall/winter. Allan Keith...
Eek, what do I call this winter visitor — black chipping bird, white-bill, slate-colored snowbird, eastern junco, slate-colored junco or dark-...
Once upon a time a small finch known as a linnet lived in the United States west of the Rocky Mountains. There were a group of sleazy pet dealers...
The Vineyard’s woodlands are beginning to undergo that fall change. The oaks are slowly turning a yellow-brown and dropping their leaves. The...
Grin, sharpie, modo, rump, red nut, limey and bobo — what kind of gibberish is that? No, it is not baby talk or profanity, but nicknames that...
The Vineyard’s familiar terns have left and headed south. The smallest, the least tern, is the first to go in early September. The common and...
“I’m seeing a weird warbler, it looks kind of like a chickadee” said Flip Harrington. That was the beginning of an exciting morning at the Gay...
Hurricane Earl was a bust for bird watchers. A cast of thousands, all the Vineyard’s most active bird watchers, met at the Gay Head Cliffs on...