Birds of Ohio had become the latest victim of web bot spamming. Web bots are most simply put machines created to surf the internet and post many comments on websites full of nonsense. Basically, they are machines used to cause others alot of otherwise unecessary work. The eagle cam...

   I was cleaning out one of my tree swallow boxes a few weeks ago shortly after the little swallows fledged, and found at the bottom an unhatched egg. Deciding to further my knowledge of the bird world even more, I carefully removed the egg to take some careful measurements. These will...

   I just returned two days ago from nearly a week in the Cherokee Nation Forest in extreme southeastern Tennessee. And what have I to report? Some neat birds, along with alot of other wildlife, of course! Unfortunately nearly, no, all of the neat birds that I sw or photographed were...

   I'm sure that most birders are aware of the wonderful services offered by Cornell Lab of Ornithology through eBird (learn more about eBird here), one of their many citizen science projects where ordinary birders just like you and me gather data for them to send to scientists for study....

   July fourth was a full day for me (and a day with alot of explosions). Admist a cookout, the shooting of a potato gun, and of course, it finished off with fireworks at the county seat. I decided to share some of my photos from the trip. Before the show started, an American flag was...

   I have promised updates to the active barn swallow nest on my property, and I have decided that over a week of neglecting my website it is high time to give some of those updates. It has been several days now since I headed out to the old barn, camera and tripod in hand(s). I set up...

   I was taking a short walk right before dusk tonight, when suddenly I heard a- well, an odd sound. I looked off to my right. The weeds were rustling in two different locations, about two feet from each other and about six feet away from me off the side of the trail. Thinking that it was...

   As this is a website dedicated to all things birds, it is rare that I post a article on some other topic, yet my topics are always related to the natural world in some way. And as you can guess by the title of this article, this is a post on a froggy experience that I had...

   Most Ohio bird watchers (or hunters, nature enthusiasts, etc.) have heard of Fallsville Wildlife Area in southern Ohio. The area is popular due to the ring-necked pheasant released there every year for hunting, and the large number of ponds which are open to fishing. But for me, the...

   There are few things in this world that can heal an out-of-control temper (I hope I don't sound like a tree hugger, for a tree hugger I am not), but for me nature is one of those things. At this point (I know, the article just started) I feel the need to clarify one thing. I have...