The nationwide Great Backyard Bird Count runs today through Monday. Learn more about it here. You can spend as little as 15 minutes -- or as much as you like -- without leaving the house ...
Recent NY Times story on this year's count is here.
My latest "Bird Watcher" column in The Record is all about Black-capped Chickadees, including an abbreviated section about how to get them to eat out of your hand.
Link is here.
Don Torino has a nice sequel to his online column about birding buddies on wildnj.tv. Link is here.
Congrats to all who took a lucky guess and said that the mystery was bare ground. That's right! This is what the ground looks like without snow -- especially when you don't believe in grass lawns.
Who knows? Maybe soon we'll see more than patches.
A heart-felt thank you to Sally Teschon for this wonderful photo.