Poor Freds, bee-birds? Summer Tanagers
Summer Tanager is too often the other bird. Early Virginia colonists named it the summer redbird to distinguish it from the year-round redbird, the Northern Cardinal.
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Scan a scoop of Black Skimmers
In the summer of 1977 the Least Terns on the Mississippi Coast got new neighbors when a small colony of Black Skimmers nested on the sand beach for the first time.
In the cool of summer evenings
My neighborhood is suffering through a silence that at times drives me to distraction.
Magnificent Frigatebird forecasts storms
It was a Saturday - cool and sunny after the cold front that left Dauphin Island littered with bright birds fresh from the Yucatan.
Give wild babies a chance to grow
Birds are still pushing north to their breeding grounds. But here in South Mississippi, April's flood of migrants has slowed to a stream and will soon be only a trickle. Now when we look out at our feeders in the mornings, we no longer expect new fresh-plumaged buntings or grosbeaks. But new birds do show up every week - ungainly, tattered and sometimes downright ugly birds. They are this year's babies, our own backyards' contributions to the miracle of feathered flight.
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We all have our areas of expertise, ignorance
It sounded like a great idea when Mark Woodrey brought it up. Mark is the Research Coordinator at Grand Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve.
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Rose-breasted Grosbeak dresses in formal attire
My wife, Lin, and I came to live in this old Hattiesburg house we call Ronnalin almost 25 years ago this spring.
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Quiet beauty in reclusive bird's simple plumage
Ihave watched spring come to the swamps this year, and have spotted a lot of very nice birds in fresh breeding plumage, but I realized yesterday I have missed one of the signature bird species of our Gulf Coastal Plain region, the Swainson's Warbler.
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Ever on the trail of elusive Black Rail
This is my third column on my jinx birds, which seem to tease and torment without giving me a clear look at them. My first jinx story was about the Elegant Trogon. The second was about the Groove-billed Ani. It was the Ani I was chasing in South Texas the day I had my first brush with my most elusive jinx bird of all, the Black Rail.
