I have often lamented in these pages of my sad loss of backyard birds when my neighbor destroyed the wonderful habitat of the half acre yard next door to me by cutting down all the trees. It was a great loss.

The Northern Harrier, Circus hudsonius, is a species of raptor which inhabits both inland and coastal marshlands.

Hello my little birding friends! Hope this newsletter finds you well and enjoying the birds. I’ve had quite a few different birds at my feeder this winter and a Coopers hawk swarms by a few times a week.

Bald eagles around the country are raising young this spring and people watching them, in person or via live-cams, might wonder just how large are those nests?

I am a backyard birder. When I joined Audubon, I envisioned that I would soon be running through bushes all over the place, my little safari hat in place, identifying birds and their calls. I thought that ornithology would become as second nature as horticulture is to me.