Caption Contest #11
Here's one to ponder while you're in that tryptophan-induced nod...it's the Bill of the Birds Caption Contest #11!Send us your clever caption for this image, using the Comments window bel

Bird Boxers
Birders need all kinds of gear for their activity. Photo © David Tipling.Bird watching has finally arrived as a viable market segment of society. Birders are consumers but it's only been in the past decad

Traditional Welcome Ceremony
The birding tower at Indigo Hill as seen from the western side.When special guests come to our rural farm in southeastern Ohio, we welcome them in the traditional way of our people: we throw rotten pumpkins from the top of our tower. This is the primary re

One Moment: Leaping Blackburnian
On the morning of September 11, 2009, my camera captured a young male Blackburnian warbler launching into flight from our side-yard sycamore tree.

Lack of Photo Opps & Chops
Roseate spoonbill.I've been in a dry spell for taking interesting bird photographs lately. Partly due to being busy with work, life, and other stuff (IS there other stuff?), partly due to the fact that I haven't been anywhere that offered decent photo opportunit