Wonderful to be home again, home again from a month away! We arrive back on May Day, the beginning of the best birding season here in the Berkshires with migrants streaming in under the cover of ...

What a sad story, Dave, I was moments away from selling you a brand new birdhouse, only to have my hopes dashed when a flycatcher occupied your old house at the last moment. Talk about a cruel twist ...

The striking scissor-tailed flycatcher is our only regular “long-tailed kingbird.” It is not only graceful and beautiful, but also common and easy to observe. Monotypic. Length 10–14.8". Adult: medium ...

Adult: gray and yellow areas of underparts fairly bright, with abrupt gray-yellow contrast on breast. Outer pairs of tail feathers extensively rufous on inner webs; dark shaft stripes and rufous ...