Birds

Came the spring with all its splendor.  All its birds and all its blossoms, All its flowers, and leaves, and grasses.  Henry Wadsworth Longfellow. his is a small songbird of forest edges and dense brush.  It’s about 4.5 inches long, has yellow underparts and olive upperparts, pinkish legs, and a small pointed bill.  Males have a gray […]

Out of their loneliness for each other two reeds, or maybe two shadows, lurch forward and become suddenly a life lifted from dawn or the rain. It is the wilderness come back again, a lagoon with our city reflected in its eye.We live by faith in such presences.  It is a test for us, that

Stellar’s jay is a common bird in western North American, its range extending from the Rockies west to the coast, up to SE Alaska and south through Mexico.  This bird shows quite the variation in plumage, particularly where its range bumps up against the eastern blue jay (Cyanocitta cristata) but more on that later.  The

he woods hold not such another gemas the nest of the hummingbird.The finding of one is an event. – John Burroughs This is the most common humming bird on the west coast of North America and ranges from northern British Columbia to northern Mexico.  This is a moderate sized hummer ranging from 3.9 – 4.3 inches

Also known as the common puffin the Atlantic puffin ranges from Main to the British Isles and north to Norway and Newfoundland.  It breeds in Iceland, Norway, Greenland, south to Maine and on numerous Atlantic islands. Puffins are in the Alcidae, or auk family, that includes guillemots, auks, murrelets, auklets, puffins, and the razorbill.  The Atlantic