Terns at Tiscornia

June 28, 2021 2 Comments

It’s been rain, rain and more rain all weekend. I managed to eek out a little birding Friday evening between the rain showers. Looking at the hourly forecast it looked liked I had a 2 or 3 hour window to look up and down the beaches of St. Joseph along Lake Michigan for a Marbled …

Modeling Mockingbird of Benton Harbor

June 13, 2021 2 Comments

I had a little early morning free time on Saturday, June 12th. I wanted to bird, but also needed to beat the heat to do a routine brake and rotors replacement on my vehicle. I scanned through my email, looking for a a potential bird of interest nearby. My eyes fell on an email alert …

Birding – My Story, My Website, My Vision

June 6, 2021 0 Comments

On my bookshelf, placed between Sibley’s Guide to Bird Life and Behavior and National Geographic’s Complete Birds of North America is a small, unassuming blue book, about 8 inches tall, sporting cover illustrations of 3 colorful birds – Buntings to be exact. The spine is tattered and warped, the glue barely holding the pages in …