I could do worse than to be swarmed with blackbirds. The pickings have been extremely lean this summer, with maybe 1/10 of the usual number ...

It was one of those hothot HOT summers in Chatham, in the heel of Southwestern Ontario, when it felt like someone was holding something to ...

Bird-watching can be very hit-or-miss. One day birds show up in noisy droves, challenging your ability to even get them into camera range, a...

The wigeons are back! After a long, cold, lonely winter, spring and the birds have finally arrived.   Birds are my spiritual salvation, so t...

FUN FACTS from Wikipedia: Like other jays, the Steller's jay has numerous and variable vocalizations. One common call is a har...

I don't seem to have time to set this up much, but it's self-explanatory, I think. My daughter Shannon is the reporter. I was be...

The crow I recently encountered on Lafarge Lake was acting very strangely. It was standing on the banks rattling its beak menacingly, an...

Stunning wildlife videos just fall into my lap these days, and it's mid-winter! I've only ever seen these hooded mergansers as wh...

We remember these graceful birds (which at first we thought were herons) from other trips to Maui. They're cattle egrets, semi-tame ...

From the time it first happened, it has always seemed magical to me that blackbirds fly down to eat out of your hand at Piper Spit, the ...

Three ravens like to come sit on the back fence in our yard. They just hang out for a while, not doing much of anything. They don't ...

One of my more poetic nature videos. I shot this from very far away, through a window with a screen in it, but it lent the video a fey, ...

How do you teach a wild bird to eat from your hand? by A. Byrd X-pert Around my parts, we practice a form of conditioning; acclima...

"With a golden head, a white patch on black wings, and a call that sounds like a rusty farm gate opening, the Yellow-headed Blackbir...

This is some footage of pigeons I took at Piper Spit, Burnaby Lake, our favorite place to bird-watch. The pigeons are at it full-force, ...

The first time a blackbird flew down to eat out of my hand at Burnaby Lake, my hair stood on end (figuratively speaking). From the time ...

(Note that the satyr tragopan, not the brightest of birds, is extravagantly performing his courtship ritual fo...

(Please note . These gifs can run slow at first, or at least they do for me. Once they have gone through a full cycle, usually 10 or...

This is Baby's First Video, the first time I ever tried to work with the video camera: and all at once, a Steller's jay, a squir...