I first started birding seriously in land-locked Washtenaw county where the game of Big Days helped offset some of the boredom of inland-cou...

New Buffalo harbor is one of the better places in the county to find Snowy Owls.  I don't think I expected to see a Snowy Plover there t...

Tim found a Black-bellied Whistling-duck on the evening of Good Friday. Like I said the other day, digi-scoping's not dead.  I took ve...

Ginger recently got a new point-and-shoot style digital camera which actually works pretty well for digiscoping which I'd pretty much ab...

... interesting backgrounds? I tried a few spots that I thought might be sheltered and have some water that could keep insects alive or...

There's a lot of brown birds around in various shades.  Here's a White-fronted Goose from a week or so ago.  It was my 200th (or may...

Hopefully I'm not jinxing that. Rhoda and I made a morning trip to Buffalo Rd which quickly paid off.  Almost immediately we heard the...