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Spark Birding Spashes Down at Space Coast Festival
Recap of a storied birding event, field trips and Peter Alden's presentation By Chris Bensley Last week Cape Canaveral brought together...

Christopher Bensley
Feb 3, 20242 min read


Name That Bird: Peter Alden's Proposed Alternatives
Experienced in Naming Birds, Author Peter Alden Presents Some Options What do you do when inclement weather has you housebound? For most...

Peter Alden
Dec 21, 20232 min read


Field Trip to Cape Ann: Recap
A great morning for sea ducks Having postponed our Cape Ann trip the previous weekend due to bad weather, we chose Sunday, December 10 in...

Peter Alden
Dec 14, 20232 min read


How a Christmas Bird Count Works
Volunteers move quickly to identify and count birds in a small geographic circle on a CBC The Christmas Bird Count is now in its 124th...

Christopher Bensley
Dec 7, 20233 min read


Piping Plovers in the News
Coming Back from making the Endangered Species List in the 1960’s The Story of Piping Plovers These ghost-white little shorebirds were...

Christopher Bensley
Nov 24, 20232 min read


Bird Names Are A Changin'
American Ornithological Society Decides to Change Birds Named After People One of the joys of birdwatching is identifying a bird by its...

Christopher Bensley
Nov 7, 20232 min read


The Varying Levels of Birdwatching
Birdwatching is extremely easy. Birdwatching is extremely difficult. Both of those sentences are true. By Chris Bosak Birdwatching is...

Chris Bosak
Oct 29, 20233 min read


The Story of the “The Bird of the Century!”
A Rare Arctic Gull in Massachusetts | March 4, 1975 SALISBURY, Mass. — Telephones rang. The word was passed. Up and down the East Coast,...

Christopher Bensley
Sep 30, 20233 min read
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