This year’s annual Christmas Bird Count participants, 65 in the field and 29 watching their feeders, found more birds than we had in recent years.

“It’s all about the food.” This time of year and these icy conditions make this literally true for virtually all of the avian population.

In this snowy and cold weather, birds depend on your feeders for their survival; the food they get may be that little bit extra that helps them...

Leonardo da Vinci does not make it into the bird news too often! He is well known as an artist. He is not so well known as a scientist.

This past week has produced five species not seen on the Christmas Bird Count: American kestrel, redpoll, bald eagle, redhead and piping plover.

Probably the best bird of the week is Dick Jennings’s observation of a common yellowthroat. It was hunkered down along a border of liriope.

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