I was having breakfast on our roofdeck this morning with my husband and we were enjoying a gorgeous summer day. Directly across from us on the next building there was a lot of commotion. A mockingbird was doing aerobatics flying at another bird on the roof. We got our binoculars to see what it was […]
Blog Category: Wild Birds
Peregrine Falcon Fledges in Boise
The first baby Peregrine falcon in the nest closely watched by the nestcam sponsored by The Peregrine Fund has fledged! Watch lift off and the rocky moments of his first flight here: Baby Peregrine Fledges Wildtones supports The Peregrine Fund
Time out in Costa Rica’s Osa Peninsula Rainforest
No matter what the season is, there is something special about the southwest peninsula of Costa Rica near Corcovado National Park. It’s a wonderful forested area by the water that has a rich diversity of bird and animal life. Lapa Rios (meaning River of Macaws), founded by American Karen Lewis before the term “green” […]
Will the Bird Friendly Shade Grown Coffee Please Stand Up?
My husband and I are coffee drinkers. In fact, recently I made the mistake of taking him along to help get a replacement when our old cappuccino machine died. We wound up with a machine so complicated I needed an advanced degree to make it work. But I digress. The reason for my writing about […]
Prime Real Estate for Peregrines
Climbing the Verrazano Bridge and dodging the attacks of Peregrine falcons while trying to band their chicks is all in a days’ work for Chris Nadareski who works for the DEP — and one of whose many jobs is keeping a sharp eye on the Peregrine population in NYC. Led by Chris, Barbara Loucks and […]
Who’s Learning to Sing Now?
Last week I started hearing the first songs of the year from the White-throated sparrows in my garden. The best part about this is that White-throated sparrows, like some other birds, must relearn their songs every year. I had the pleasure of meeting Don Kroodsma, author of “The Singing Life of Birds” several years ago […]
Building Bird Nest Boxes
Spring is a time when lots of people turn their attention to creating nest boxes for breeding birds. Many birds use next boxes – from wrens to owls – and as we lose nesting habitat, nest boxes create an opportunity that might otherwise be lost for some birds to find a safe place to raise […]
It’s cold outside…do your birds have water?
Many parts of the country are experiencing seriously cold weather now. For wild birds that means a hardship trying to find water that they can drink as most of it is frozen over. In cold weather, wild birds can get dehydrated and that’s why you sometimes see birds in the street gutters trying to drink […]