A rare-for-North Carolina bird first spotted last year at Dorothea Dix Park in Raleigh apparently is making an encore appearance. The portrait Karp shared shows the bird’s fluffy ruby underside amid ...
At the Celery Fields and in woodland areas like Pinecraft Park, you’ll spot numerous kinds of birds, from jaw-droppingly ...
Members of the Raleigh birding community will toss their binoculars into the car at the drop of a sun hat for a two-hour drive to catch a glimpse of a rare specimen on their lifer list. So as word got ...
Painted Bunting (Passerina ciris): colorful, unmistakable. That’s exactly how one of my Costa Rica bird books describes the painted bunting in the little blurb next to the color photos, and I think ...
I enjoyed a recent excursion to coastal South Carolina, which provided me a change to look for birds at such locations as Huntington Beach State Park and Brookgreen Gardens. These two attractions are ...
If I have said it once, I’ve said it a thousand times: nature is always changing. For some reason we people always think that everything stays the same. But when it comes to nature, it is never the ...
It was my pleasure to be the guest speaker at the Brainerd Lakes Area Audubon meeting in April. Prior to my presentation, John Richardson shared a story of a phone call he received just a few days ...
A UFO was spotted at a Santa Fe feeder Aug. 14. The gorgeous bird had a jaw-dropping rainbow of colors — a brilliant blue head, green body and red rump and belly. Yes, a painted bunting, a relatively ...
A single Painted Bunting photographed in Dorothea Dix Park in May 2023. The bird also made a rare appearance in the Raleigh, NC park last summer, drawing hundreds of birders from around the state to ...