Most radio can usually be categorised as either ‘talk based’, for example LBC, or be ‘music based’, like Virgin Radio, but all that is set to change as the dawn of the Digital Era has spawned a new style of radio broadcasting - there is now a digital station that broadcasts nothing but bird song! It

St. Francis Feeding the Birds Under the Hackberry Joe in Wicker Chair Birdsong: “Buja, buja, buja” “Rightchere, rightchere, right, right, right, right, right, right, right, right” Delicate, pink open-faced prairie rose bloomed when I wasn’t watching – and the first Gloriosa Daisy. Buzzing Wood Bees jostle. Two birds call to each other with a sound like a soft ratcheting. Cool breeze. It

Here is one of our neighborhood Dippers, cleaning those precious wings, probably stimulating a little extra waterproofing oil from the glands, generally keeping the feathers smooth and in proper order.  BIRDS OF OREGON  by Marshall, Hunter, et al. puts it succinctly: “Few birds are as astonishing as the American Dipper.”  They are found in many clean mountain

I’ve already blogged about chasing raptors across the frozen steppe that is the Klamath Basin in winter…fine birding.  Well, Thursday, June 19, the weather was far better, perfect in fact.  Almost the end of spring, but it was summery to the feel.  Crisp and cool in themorning but rapidly warming under the sun.  The only hint of

Here are three different shots of a the same adult male Bullock’s Oriole along Bear Creek in Ashland this morning.  Spotted by Bill Hering this guy sat in full sunlight, and waited until I got a couple decent shots.        There was also a busy oriole nest not far from the dog park’s parking lot.  The top had

Sergio Leone’s soundtrack to the western The Good, the Bad and the Ugly is pretty well pressed into the collective celluloid memory bank of great soundtracks, that can be whistled…. But did you ever realize how big a part a bird commonly called the mourning dove played in the inspiration of the music? I was writing

I pulled into the parking just as the bird folded his wings and stuck onto the wide of a large ponderosa.  I have failed to a find a Great Gray Owl after looking over several promising moutnain meadows.  I had concluded this would be a beautiful morning but given over to the ordinary birds of

Good Things Builder says the extension will be finished next week. Thank God! (See Bad Things) Cleared a space in the builders rubble and lay in the sun on Saturday afternoon. Not the most congenial of surroundings, but if you closed your eyes and tuned into ‘Birdsong’ on DAB radio, you could have been lying anywhere. Drinking chilled Staropramen in the

I am grateful I know so many inspiring FCW … Mary Birdsong is one… here’s an recent article about her … FCW are everywhere!! Mary Birdsong may possibly be one of the most talented women in America. She is an actor who has graced both stage and screen. She has starred opposite Martin Short on Broadway

We watched this female Wood-Pewee flyctach and give her wheezy sounding call on a sunny, torrid actually, hillside of scrubby trees and dense weeds.  It was just uphill from Milepost 10 on Dead Indian Memorial Road.  Mid-day with temps over 90 degrees.  No other birds were visible except for swallows who seem to relish the