northeast naturalist

[scanned Kodachrome II slide] A Story in the Snow © Dave Spier Birder's journal March 21, 1971: I was following the re...

Juvenile Cooper's Hawk eating what might have been a Red-winged Blackbird(?)...  (It's hard to tell at this point, especially wit...

© Dave Spier   There are two requirements for finding kingfishers in winter: open water and an overhanging perch, usually a tree branch...

American Kestrels (revised with new links and photos) © Dave Spier They're easiest to see when they sit on power lines and watc...

© Dave Spier At this rate, it just might spend the winter here. Sometimes it flies close to the building, passing the west windows, and...

A female Argiope aurantia, the golden garden spider, hangs upside down as it finishes wrapping its prey in a gauze straight jacket. The ...