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Dragonfly Swarms
Variable Darner (Aeshna interrupta) © Bryan Pfeiffer August 26, 2014: A repost about those dragonflies swarming on these late summer days. THEY SWARM at mountain summits, along dirt roads, in back...
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Migration’s Misfits
Pick your favorite sign of spring: squirrels mating, mud oozing, maples flowering. Mine is a vulture soaring. Change in the air is a naked, ruddy head gliding in on big wings. But more than being a...
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The Forecast Calls for Birds
Prothonotary Warbler / © Bryan Pfeiffer By Bryan on May 22, 2013 (Revised May 7, 2014) Songbirds pouring from the skies at dawn. Thousands of hawks gliding past a mountain summit. Rare oceanic birds...
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Monhegan Report No. 1: Beer and a Movie
Merlin / © Bryan Pfeiffer In the gray dawn on Monhegan Island, Merlins were already on the hunt – Blue Jays in their sights. Like stunt jets, the falcons zoomed and twisted and swooped. The jays...
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Montpelier Wild No. 2: The Beavers of Spring Street
A hint of spring drifted on broad wings with a bald head over Montpelier Sunday afternoon. Only days after the Vernal Equinox came our first Turkey Vulture. This vulture counts as an actual spring...
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Rain, Leaves and Warblers
Black-throated Green Warbler / © Bryan Pfeiffer FROM THE RAINS this weekend there will be birds – lots of them. Spring is coming slowly this year. Here in my home city of Montpelier, Vermont, the...
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Fly or Die: Painted Ladies on the Move
Blog Post Update – September 20, 2017: On August 8, I blogged about a flight of Painted Lady butterflies here in New England and elsewhere on the continent. I speculated that these were southbound...
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Getting Goosed This Autumn
IN THE WIDE OPEN spaces of the Champlain Valley, and bathed in the angled light of autumn, I suggest that you get goosed. Snow Goosed. The white geese are passing through Vermont and New York — in...
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The “Snowy Owl Scoop” Takes Flight
SNOWY OWLS ARE SHOWING UP in good numbers from the Northeast to the Great Lakes and Great Plains this month. We’re not yet sure about the magnitude of this winter’s incursion, but I expect more owls...
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