Greetings,
Finally after many many months (years?), we have finally begun to add photos from our last cross country trip during the fall of 2006 (late summer really). The trip took place over the course of nearly 3 weeks and went from California to NY.
Major life zones that were visited included the off-shore Pacific Ocean, Sierra-Nevada […]

Greetings,
Looking out the window today around 4:00 PM, I noticed a large rufous-colored bird scratching and over-turning leaves in the hedgerow that borders my driveway. Upon closer inspection with binoculars it turned out to be an adult BROWN THRASHER, the first I have observed in several months. My guess is it is one of the […]

Greetings,
To all the NY birders out there, a Townsend’s Solitaire was discovered today in Albany County, NY. For those wishing to read further into the discovery, identification, and discussion of this bird, click here. 
Hopefully the bird can be rediscovered and photographic evidence can be made. On top of that, let’s hope that any and all […]

With St. Valentine’s Day coming up, I suggest that we all take a look at maybe getting a sweet for the biggest sweetie we know, Mother Earth. It probably goes rather unnoticed in the large scheme of organic and all natural products, but on Valentine’s Day, the plants we choose to buy, and in particular […]

With Pennsylvania’s most famous Groundhog- Punxsutawney Phil, predicting 6 more weeks of winter, I propose we should all do our best at finding all of those winter specialties such as rare gulls, owls, Bohemian Waxwings, and finches before they make their eventual move north. Here’s to fuzzy fat mammals…
~Chad