Every year, Apple releases a new iPhone and one of the great features of their phone is the excellent and always improving camera. It was … Read More
This Week in Birding 36
Charlotte Wasylik is a young, active birder hailing from Alberta, Canada. A junior in high school, she has already done an internship with Long Point … Read More
Learning to digiscope
My name is Phoebe Lanzone, I am 7 years old  and this is my first blog post. I  wanted to share with other kids my … Read More
Kinglet and Thrashers – PSU Fall Banding
Heavy fog and very cold temperatures again this morning, and we had our slowest morning of banding yet with just 22 birds of 7 species captured … Read More
Blackpoll Warbler! – PSU Fall Banding
When I woke up this morning, it was 36 degrees in State College. I knew Big Hollow (where our banding station is) would be very … Read More
Pelagic Magic at Jaegerfest
Different varieties of birds hit the spot for different birders. There’s that excitement of warbler-watching along the woodlands and thickets during migration… the flurry of … Read More
National Wildlife Refuge Week eBird Challenge!
OK bird nerds, now that everyone knows how to look like a cool birder (if you don’t, follow these 12 steps), there is a new … Read More
12 Steps to becoming a cooler birder
Listen, we all know that we don’t engage in the coolest of activities. I mean I think it’s cool, you hopefully think it’s cool, but … Read More
Foggy Morning – PSU Fall Banding
South winds all last night combined with a very heavy layer of fog this morning made for a fairly slow day of bird banding, but … Read More
The Farallones: Far-out and Far-flung
Spelunking and birding aren’t two hobbies that usually have much in common, unless, perhaps, one is searching for rockfowl in West Africa. I never thought … Read More