QUECHEE—The Vermont Institute of Natural Science (VINS) is welcoming the spring season by extending open hours at the center and offering new daily programs. Beginning May 1, VINS resumed live bird programs, and the Forest Exhibit and Reptile Room will […]
Tag: Birds
Birders tell Texas tales, share photo footage
Tuesday, Feb. 26, 7 p.m.—RUTLAND— Rutland County Audubon will host an event with members Sue and Marv Elliott on Tuesday, Feb. 26 at 7 p.m. at Rutland’s Grace Church. The Elliotts have visited more than half of the Texas state […]
Learn to identify (and see) spring birds in guided nature walk at state site
Saturday, May 20, 8 a.m.—ORWELL—Take a guided walk on the wild side to look for and identify birds during the annual early bird nature walk at Mount Independence State Historic Site in Orwell, Saturday, May 20. Gather outside the museum […]
State’s insect-eating birds in decline, others decreasing
By Mike Polhamus, VTDigger Fewer birds appear to live in Vermont today than 25 years ago, according to recent research by the Vermont Center for Ecostudies. The most dramatic declines in bird populations were seen among those that live off […]
Vermont Fish & Wildlife creates new Bird’s Eye WMA
By Julia Purdy On a recent early spring day, with snow still blanketing the woods, no green shoots were poking through just yet, but meltwater was trickling across the old woods road along the east flank of Birdseye, where deer […]
State sees resurgence of birds once endangered
By Gaen Murphree If you heard a loon’s wild cry, were lucky enough to spot a bald eagle nest or watched a peregrine falcon on the wing this past summer, you shared in the continued resurgence of three of the […]
The Outside Story: Angry birds
By Carolyn Lorié One morning in mid-March, I opened the door to discover a dark-eyed junco frenetically battling another bird. Or at least it thought it was another bird. His nemesis was, in fact, his own reflection in the stainless-steel […]
Goshawk: apex accipiter
By Thomas Ames, Jr. “The Boke of St. Albans,” a 15th century sportsman’s handbook, decreed that only a nobleman could hunt with a falcon, but a mere yeoman might settle for a goshawk. “In the talons there was death,” wrote […]
Wait to feed birds, Vermont Fish & Wildlife suggests
Courtesy of VTF&W, By Kris & Norm Senna Vermont Fish & Wildlife says some bears are still active and to wait for six or more inches of snow and colder weather before putting up your bird feeders. The Vermont Fish […]