We are all birders now

Lots of people, including us, started watching birds more closely during the pandemic. We found many different ways to be fascinated with the world of birds.

Ordinary birds doing interesting things

Food fight on a downtown sidewalk:

Cardinal eating a cicada:

Starlings arguing:

Enjoying exotic visitors

Sometimes a few birds end up in the D.C. region far outside their normal habitats. Ones that we have been lucky to see:

Snowy owl at Union Station:

Black-bellied whistling duck in the Capitol Reflecting Pool:

Roseate spoonbill in northern Virginia:

Seeing a family grow up

Rob’s been documenting the same owl family in Rock Creek Park for several years, watching them interact and produce the next generation.

Traveling to see birds

Did you know that there are puffins in the continental U.S.? Miki recently went to Maine and saw them:

The food chain

Watching birds eat animals lower on the food chain is sad, gross, interesting, and the reality of how the natural world operates.