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30 March 2026 Five of us gathered at Duck Hollow yesterday morning when it was cold and cloudy. Waterfowl activity was low because the river was so high. The mud bar (not a sandbar) was still submerged. We hoped to find the blue-winged teal that was there on Saturday but no luck. Instead we saw … Continue reading Seen Yesterday at Duck Hollow, 29 March →
29 March 2026 Today, 29 March, the first egg hatched at the USS Irvin bald eagle nest. The video above shows a closeup of the egg’s first opening with the eaglet looking out. Mother eagle sometimes blocks the camera as she moves around to watch the eaglet. See the USS Irvin bald eagles live stream … Continue reading First Egg Hatched at USS Irvin Eagle Nest →
29 March 2026 When peregrines have eggs both parents incubate. The female incubates all night. The male takes turns with her during the day. This trading of incubation duty is called a nest exchange. On Friday 27 March Carla and Ecco made eight nest exchanges from pre-dawn to evening. The amount of time the male … Continue reading Trading Places Many Times a Day →
28 March 2026 A week ago I posted a photo of a northern magnolia flower with snow (top left). This week that same flower and all the others on the tree are brown and shriveled from frost damage (top right). After it warmed up (again) this week brave tulips bloomed along Fifth Avenue in Oakland. … Continue reading Seen This Week: Frost Damage, Brave Flowers and a Few Leaves →
27 March 2026 Blue jays can be very territorial about food and water but they don’t always win the contest. When two jays want the same thing they argue and chase until one of them leaves. Other species use different techniques. This red-winged blackbird pair double-teams a blue jay so that one gets a nut … Continue reading Mine! Blue Jay Does Not Always Win →
26 March 2026 Songbird migration kicks off with two small birds that are easiest to find if you can hear them. The brown creeper (Certhia americana) climbs and zigzags up tree trunks and large branches, probing under the bark for insects. When he reaches the top he flies down to the base of the next … Continue reading Can You Hear Me? →
25 March 2026 Carla and Ecco now have four eggs but we wouldn’t have known it until sharp-eyed observer Scott Hannan captured a screenshot just before 7am when Carla and Ecco did a nest exchange. Ecco is in this photo, getting ready to incubate. It took me a while to find the moment when Carla … Continue reading Egg#4 at the Pitt Peregrine Nest →
24 March 2026 Snow goose migration is a huge spectacle in February and March along the Illinois River from Havana north to Peoria. Numbers have grown as the migratory population concentrates at Emiquon and Chautauqua National Wildlife Refuges. Here’s the count of just one flock on the lake at Chautauqua NWR on 27 Feb 2026 … Continue reading A Million Snow Geese in Illinois, Count is Down at Middle Creek →
23 March 2026 Birdblog outings resume this month with my first outing next Sunday at Duck Hollow. Sunday 29 March 2026 — 8:30am – 10:30am Duck Hollow Meet at Duck Hollow parking lot at the end of Old Browns Hill Road. We’ll check the river for waterfowl, look for migrating songbirds along Nine Mile Run, … Continue reading Duck Hollow Outing, 29 March 8:30a →
22 March 2026, 5:00pm Today, 22 March, at 4:45pm Carla laid her third egg of 2026 at the Cathedral of Learning peregrine nest. Thanks to John English for texting me right away and sending the screen grab above. Carla will be staying close to the eggs right now because there’s a thunderstorm passing through. Ecco … Continue reading Egg#3 at the Pitt Peregrine Nest →
22 March 2026 Katydids are usually hard to find because their green color and leafy shape provide camouflage in their natural habitat. This one in Costa Rica can only be seen because his leaf is lit from below. When scientists in Panama occasionally found a hot pink version of a normally green katydid (Arota festea) … Continue reading Katydid Wears Hot Pink to Blend In →
21 March 2026 The weather has been a yo-yo this week with a sunny high of 68°F on Sunday and 60°F on Monday. Then it started snowing hard at 6:00pm Monday. Three inches covered the City while at Pittsburgh’s weather station the snow was twice as deep. It set a new record for a yo-yo … Continue reading Seen This Week: Snow, Flowers and Mud Season →
20 March 2026 Today around noon, Carla laid her second egg of 2026 the peregrine nest high atop the Cathedral of Learning at the Univ of Pittsburgh. Thanks to Adam Knoerzer for texting me right away and sending this screen grab at 12:05pm. Britta Moletz at the National Aviary posted this video.
20 March 2026 On St. Patrick’s Day around 9:00am I was not paying attention to the sky. I wasn’t looking out the window and if I’d heard a faint sonic boom I would have dismissed it as construction noise. Meanwhile, outside many windows, a 7-ton asteroid crossed the sky in just 3 seconds and exploded … Continue reading St. Patrick’s Day Meteor →
19 March 2026 Right now it’s High Season for observing peregrine falcons in southwestern Pennsylvania. Most are still courting and conspicuously guarding their territories. But by mid-April they’ll become secretive and hard to find as they incubate eggs. When a peregrine shows up unexpectedly in March I’m keen to find its nesting territory. On Saturday … Continue reading Peregrine Update Southwest PA, 19 March →
