While deciding whether to continue the blog, I thought that I would post a few sketches from birds seen on hikes in the last couple of mont...

 I've hiked a number of times in the last few months at Powhatan State Park, about a 40 minute drive from my home.  I hiked a 7.5 mile l...

 Did you ever see a woodpecker rise from the dead?  While hiking in Shenandoah Saturday, I was watching two downy woodpeckers across the riv...

 Since posting the other day about my nature journal, I added a page for some dark-eyed junco observations that I made last summer while lea...

Every year, the Cornell University Laboratory of Ornithology coordinates the Great Backyard Bird Count.  This year, it went from Friday the ...

I was in Greenville, SC on family business but took a little walk on the Swamp Rabbit Trail.  Ahead of me, a large bird flew across the trai...

One of the great things about hiking the Laurel Highlands Hiking Trail in May was all of the birds and wildflowers, and also some salamander...