We're on our way!

Ruby-throated Hummingbird
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

See where we are now on this map.

We Peregrines are indeed "King Sh*t"!

Peregrine Falcon
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Read this: "Peregrine Falcon Acting Pretty Cocky Since Being Taken Off Endangered Species List."

Yellowlegs Express

Greater Yellowlegs
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

When you absolutely, positively have to be there by tomorrow.

This weather stinks!

Skunk
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

No goose or duck eggs, no turtle eggs, no fruit. What's a poor skunk supposed to eat?

When I itches...

American Goldfinch
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

...I scratches.

Let people say we're in love!

Great Blue Heron
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

I'm the most adorable bird in the universe!

Google "most adorable bird in the universe" if you don't believe me! (Pete Morris kindly allowed us to use this beautiful photo of ME to highlight the Caribbean Endemic Bird Festival.)

Home again!

Red-winged Blackbird - detail
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Hey, it's good to be back home again
Sometimes this old farm feels like a long lost friend
Yes, 'n, hey it's good to be back home again

My favorite Robert Frost poem?

BOBOLINK
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

I'm sort of partial to The Exposed Nest. Though really, you'd think people would use it as a cautionary tale about the perils of mowing during nesting season.

Friday is Robert Frost's birthday!

Ovenbird
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

I expect you all to recite his poem, The Oven Bird, at least once to celebrate.

I wish people were more like us chickadees

Black-capped Chickadee
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

We welcome every warbler, vireo, nuthatch, kinglet, woodpecker, or other non-predator into our flocks without caring if they're gay or straight, black or white or yellow or green or red. All of us work together to insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity.

And no way would we ever deny health care to anyone.

Side by Side

Sandhill Crane
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Oh, we ain't got a barrel of money
Maybe we're ragged and funny,
But we'll travel along,
Singin' our song,
Side by side.

Oh, we don't know what's comin' tomorrow,
Maybe it's trouble and sorrow
But we'll travel the road
Sharin' our load
Side by side.

Through all kinds of weather--
What if the sky should fall?
Just as long as we're together
It doesn't matter at all.

Oh, when others have quarreled and parted
We'll be the same as we started.
Just a travelin' along,
Singin' a song,
Side by side.

All that lovey dovey crap...

Ruby-throated Hummingbird adult male
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

who needs it?

When I'm not near the girl I love...

Mallard
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

...I love the girl I'm near. I can't help it. But I'll stick with you most of the time until you start incubating. That gets a little boring for us drakes.

Hopelessly devoted to you.

Mourning Doves
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

I love how romantic you get every year starting just around our anniversary! But it's lucky I appreciate sad love songs.

Together again!

Great Blue Heron
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

We're reminiscing, looking at last year's photos.

Can't we all just get along?

Black-capped Chickadee detail
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Everywhere I go lately I'm seeing robins fighting over territories. What a waste of energy, plus while they're focusing on each other they can miss hawks flying over and all kinds of more urgent issues.

C'mon, guys! Give it a rest. Singing it out is much better than duking it out. Really.

They call me the upside-down bird!

White-breasted Nuthatch
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

I'm just trying to live up to my reputation.

When the swallows come back to Capistrano...

Cliff Swallow
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

...that's the day you promised to come home to me.

Anyone remember My Little Margie?

Dark-eyed Junco
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Ddddddddddddddddddddddddddd.

No that's not a starling!

Killdeer
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

I'm really back in Ithaca! So I hope you don't get any more crappy winter weather.

I'm baaaaack!

Great Blue Heron
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Checking out my nest again! Lookin' good!

Heard your first Eastern Wood-Pewee yet?

European Starling
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Hehehehehehe. We love tricking birders.

Ready or not...

Yellow-rumped Warbler
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Here I come!

I wear green every day...

Painted Bunting
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

...but even on St. Patrick's Day, people seem more focused on my red and blue colors.

I love St. Patrick's Day!

Green Violetear
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Every other day, folks tell me I'm green with envy.

Like Willie Nelson, we're...

Snow Goose
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

On the road again -
Just can't wait to get on the road again.
The life I love is making music with my friends

And I can't wait to get on the road again.
On the road again

Goin' places that I've never been.
Seein' things that I may never see again

And I can't wait to get on the road again.
On the road again -
Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We're the best of friends.
Insisting that the world keep turning our way

And our way
is on the road again.
Just can't wait to get on the road again.
The life I love is makin' music with my friends

And I can't wait to get on the road again.
On the road again

Like a band of gypsies we go down the highway
We're the best of friends

Insisting that the world keep turning our way

And our way
is on the road again.
Just can't wait to get on the road again.
The life I love is makin' music with my friends

And I can't wait to get on the road again.
And I can't wait to get on the road again.

For us, every day is St. Patrick's Day

Emerald Toucanet
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

Time to think about the wearin' o' the green

Monk Parakeet
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson

For us, every day is St. Patrick's Day. Well, except for the Irish part.

Beware the eyes of March!

American Robin
Originally uploaded by Laura Erickson