Curations from the Human Jungle
[vtdigger.org is our local "Internet rag," and keeps us up-to-date on local characters. You've already met Merlin, the birding app from the Cornell Ornithology lab who identifies bird songs in the back forty. Now meet the "Bird Diva," who offers a distinctly different type of birding experience. SB SM] Vermont’s ‘Bird Diva’ introduces a new... Continue Reading →
The Outside Story By Meghan McCarthy McPhaul The shift begins around the time we turn the clocks ahead, a gradual transition from winter’s steady chorus of chickadees, squawking jays, and crows cawing over the compost pile to – well, more. On an afternoon walk along back roads, I’ll hear an avian uprising and look up... Continue Reading →
[This system would never work with Silverbacks! SB SM] The Outside Story It Takes a Village to Raise a Veery By William von Herff If you take a walk through a thick, broadleaf forest on a cool summer morning, you might recognize the cascading, metallic song of a thrush called a veery. It is an... Continue Reading →
By Lee Emmons On certain afternoons, if I time it just right, I may spot a brown creeper (Certhia americana) on the trunk of a tree in my front yard. Moving stealthily, almost imperceptibly up the tree, the brown creeper hunts for food amongst the bark. I watch this avian mission with a sense of... Continue Reading →