Birding

We love to travel to find new birds and participate in a lot of bird counts. We also created a Guide to Birding Field Guides and host a collection of over 300 birding links from all over the globe.

Conservation

While our main focus continues to be birds, we are working to promote other areas of conservation. Conserving land not only benefits wildlife, but is hugely beneficial to people as well.

Outdoors

We love all sorts of outdoor activities, especially hiking and spend a lot of time outside with dogs and horses. We are working to produce more articles on all sorts of outdoor fun!

Photography

Every week we bring you Bird Photography Weekly. We periodically talk about our adventures in digiscoping. Feel free to browse our photo lifelist.

Phriday Photo – Orchard Oriole Female

July 17, 2009
Article in: Photography

Digiscoped at the Lost Mound Unit of the Upper Mississippi River NWR near Savanna, Illinois

Learn more about Orchard Orioles from Cornell’s All About Birds

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31 Cool Bird Facts #21 – Orchard Oriole

October 21, 2008
Article in: Birding

Orchard Orioles [Icterus spurius] are a burnt orange color and are often under-appreciated when compared to their more flamboyant cousins, the Baltimore Oriole. But these important pollinators are a great joy to have visit your yard, and can be attracted to nectar feeders like other orioles.

Only loosely territorial, the Orchard Oriole is often described as a “semicolonial” species in areas of prime habitat, but it is relatively solitary in marginal habitats. In areas of dense nesting, one tree may contain multiple nests. – Cornell Lab of Ornithology’s All About Birds

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