This really has nothing to do with Groundhog Day except that, according to the official Groundhog, we are in for 6 more weeks of winter. I can tell you that as annoying as that prospect might be...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2017/02/05/reflections-on-a-post-groundhog-day/
Inertia beckons. The fog was thick on Thursday when I visited Millennium Park, but it was even thicker this morning when Lesa and I decided to try birding the Palos area. McGinnis Slough was fair...
In the mad rush to the end of the year there hasn’t been much time for birding or posting but I am here to wish you all happy, good-cheer holidays, whatever you are celebrating. Last night I sa...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2016/12/25/warmup-to-a-merry-christmas/
If I’d been thinking clearly I probably would have postponed the cataract removal until after fall migration, but I ventured anyway into the wilds of downtown Chicago after I convinced myself...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2016/10/03/city-migrants-fall-migration-2016/
You’d think I’d be done with processing all those pictures from the two trips in Ecuador by now, and be happy to just get on with it, but there always seems to be an excuse presenting itsel...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2016/09/06/ho-hum-ennui-and-fall-migration/
Well, the Spring Warbler Migration has been in some kind of full swing, in fits and starts, depending on the weather and, for me, my work schedule… I have more photos of more birds to process b...
I could just as easily re-title this post to “Where Has All The Time Gone?” since I’m still trying to make adjustments to my ever-changing schedule. But this will be a brief tribute to som...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2015/10/30/where-have-all-the-birds-gone/
Here are a few pictures taken at various times over the past few weeks, all in downtown Chicago… I never manage to see enough of any one species to tire of them. Although Tennessee Warblers oft...
Unexpected. There are reports of migrant warblers every now and then, here and there, but the warblers are, for all practical purposes, gone except for the few that stay to start families. But ...
https://musicbirdblog.com/2015/06/09/stragglers-in-the-city/
It’s been a busy week, so I haven’t gotten out too much and, in spite of that, it’s taken me days to carve out a post. Freer souls have been out in the cold finding the rarities, some of wh...