Outside My Window

2 May 2024 Last weekend the headline in the Toledo Blade read:   Biggest Week   80,000 Birders Return on Friday. The Biggest Week in American Birding begins tomorrow at Maumee Bay Lodge in nort...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/05/02/starting-tomorrow-the-biggest-week-for-birds/

1 May 2024 Since our last spring checkup six weeks ago, Pittsburgh has galloped into summer. Last weekend we had July-in-April weather with official highs of 83°F and even higher in town. Carla ...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/05/01/spring-update-where-are-we-now/

30 April 2024 On TV! In mid-April I had the opportunity to guide KDKA’s Talk Pittsburgh hosts Heather Abraham and Boaz Frankel on a birding trip to Frick Park. We had a great time watching bird...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/04/30/birding-with-heather-and-boaz-talk-pittsburgh/

29 April 2024 When Carla and Ecco’s third egg hatched on 24 April we expected that all three chicks would thrive but our expectations had to change as we watched the third chick in its first da...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/04/29/now-there-are-only-two/

28 April 2024 Now that the breeding season is here the air is filled with birdsong from dawn to dusk. Birds sing to claim territory and attract a mate, but they also appear to sing for the joy of...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/04/28/playing-music-with-birds/

27 April 2024 Last Thursday four of us made our annual pilgrimage to Enlow Fork on the border of Washington & Greene Counties(*) to look for wildflowers and birds. We saw carpets of blue-eyed Mar...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/04/27/seen-this-week-at-enlow-fork/

26 April 2024 Happy Friday! These unruly nuthatch tenants are now so famous that they were featured on BBC1 6 o’clock News on Wednesday. For added fun there was footage of the tawny owl babies ...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/04/26/the-tenants-are-famous/

25 April 2024 The third chick at the Cathedral of Learning peregrine nest hatched last evening around 7:40pm. All day long he hammered on his shell, expanding the pip to a crack surrounding the e...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/04/25/three-chicks-at-pitt-peregrine-nest/

24 April 2024 While we watch the Pitt peregrine family on the National Aviary falconcam at the Cathedral of Learning, there are other nests to watch in person. Spruce Run Bridge, Ohio River: Afte...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/04/24/news-of-other-nests-2/

23 April 2024 Yesterday two of Carla and Ecco’s four eggs hatched: one at 11:02am, the second at 15:28 (3:38pm). The evidence each time was the half eggshell that Carla pulled out from under he...

https://www.birdsoutsidemywindow.org/2024/04/23/two-chicks-two-eggs-keep-watching/