American Tree Sparrows come with the first cool breeze in October, arriving upon a bounty familiar to both sparrows and restoration practitioners—seed. The tree sparrow might get to more species than we can.
Photo by Kelly Colgan Azar/Flickr
2022 Madison-area CBC results
Each December, birders come together for the longest-running citizen science project in the US: the Christmas Bird Count. The national effort is coordinated by National Audubon Society, but there are thousands of counts done locally, coordinated by local birders. In the Madison-area, the count is coordinated by Madison Audubon, and put on with help from over 100 volunteers each year.
Photo by Arlene Koziol
Eagle Entanglement
Great Horned Owl
Falco peregrinus: The Wandering Raptor
In late October, Goose Pond seed collector Aidan Karlsson and I saw a large bird with crisply pointed-wings and tight black and white stripes fly over us. Immediately I thought it was a Peregrine Falcon, but I wondered: is it likely to see a Peregrine Falcon at Goose Pond at this time of year?
Photo by Arlene Koziol
