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09/04/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday everyone. This week, a warbling vireo, warbling like a champ.

Settings: 1/1000, F/6.3 , ISO 2000

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08/29/2024

The science cannot be questioned.

CHICAGO—Confirming the impressive but limited scope of the birds’ cognitive abilities, a study published Thursday by the University of Chicago found that crows were intelligent enough to steal trinkets, but foolish enough to think that material goods would solve their problems. “Our data indic...

08/28/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. Bruce says that the red-headed woodpecker was the favorite bird of Bill Thompson III, the beloved and greatly missed publisher of Bird Watcher's Digest. Bruce says he thinks of Bill every time he sees one.

Settings: 1/250, F/9, ISO 1000

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

08/18/2024

Tres cool.

07/31/2024

Happy Happy Wunderlich Wednesday, y’all. This week a black-and-white warbler rabbit hopping down a sturdy branch like a boss.

Settings: 1/1000, F/6.3 ISO 5600

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

07/24/2024

Hey, Hey, It’s Wunderlich Wednesday! (That kind of rhymes if you say it right.) This week, a trio of Atlantic puffins swimming near Maine’s Eastern Egg Rock.

Settings: 1/4000, f/6.3, ISO 720

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07/17/2024

Hey, it’s Wunderlich Wednesday. This week, a herring gull. With a fish! Anyone have any caption ideas?

Settings: 1/2500, F/8, ISO 900

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

07/10/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week, an eastern meadowlark, singing its song, as eastern meadowlarks are wont to do.

Settings 1/1000, F/6.3 ISO 2000

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

07/03/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week, a brown thrasher with a berry to feed its young.

Settings: 1/1000, F/8.5 ISO 450

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

06/26/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday all. This time of year Bruce advises us to watch our backyards for juvenile birds like this juvenile red-bellied woodpecker he recently photographed.

Settings:1/1000, F/6.0, ISO 1800

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

06/19/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday everyone. This week, a female bobolink dining on a grasshopper.

Settings: 1/1000, F/9, ISO 400

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

06/12/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week, a Henslow's sparrow – life bird #5 of the year for Bruce.

Settings: 1/1000, f/9.0, ISO 400

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

06/06/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week, a dickcissel, singing to beat the band. It is Bruce’s third life bird this year.

Settings: 1/2000, F/9, ISO 500

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05/29/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week a darn lovely Kentucky warbler out on a branch, making it look easy.

Settings 1/400, f/6.3 ISO 720

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05/23/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday (on a Thursday). This week, a male black-and-white warbler enjoying a no-doubt tasty (to him) snack.

Settings: 1/1000, F/6.3, ISO 3600

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

05/15/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week a Canada warbler, which Bruce was lucky enough to capture a photo of on his last day of a 12 day stretch camping at Magee Marsh in Ohio.

Settings: 1/1000, F/7.1, ISO 5600

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05/01/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday, everybody. This week, a summer tanager – Bruce’s spark bird – singing from a perch in his backyard.

Settings: 11250, F/2.8 ISO 1100

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

04/24/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday everyone. This week, a northern waterthrush, Bruce’s first life bird of 2024.

Settings: 1/1600, F/9, ISO 3600

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

04/17/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. Did you know barn swallows have been spotted in Hawaii? And that they breed in every one of the other 49 states?

Settings, 1/500, F/9, ISO 2800

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

04/10/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday, y’all. This week, a chipping sparrow perched nicely in Bruce’s back yard.

Settings: 1/1250, F/9, ISO 2200

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

04/05/2024

If you’re going to watch the eclipse and are interested in doing a little citizen science…

In collaboration with the IU Luddy School of Informatics, Computing and Engineering, researchers in the IU College of Arts and Sciences are asking “comm...

04/04/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week, a female bufflehead surrounded by concentric circles and gorgeous light.

Settings: 1/800, F/8, ISO 1250

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

03/27/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week, a matched set of wood ducks. In flight!

Settings: 1/1000, F/6.7, ISO 360

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

03/19/2024

Say yes to bragging, Julie. And congratulations to David Haskell! So great to have you in our pages.

03/13/2024

Well, what do you know? It’s Wunderlich Wednesday. Bruce says that on this week’s birdtography outing he found these male and female hooded mergansers at a local lake. What a lovely matched set.

Settings: 1/1000, F/6.7, ISO 360

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

03/06/2024

Happy Wunderlich Wednesday. This week, a red-breasted nuthatch enjoying a little blue sky.

Settings: 1/2500, F/6.3, ISO 900

📷 Bruce Wunderlich

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Videos

Happy Saturday! Here's Julie Zickefoose's latest birding-by-ear #zicktorial, recorded yesterday morning at Indigo Hill. 📹: Julie Zickefoose

Happy Friday! Enjoy another #zicktorial from Julie Zickefoose, recorded a few days after a large, destructive storm. She wrote: It was 43 when I woke up. So grateful for the break from the heat while entering my third full day without power. The birds always have the power! I neglected to point out the hooded warbler who sings three more times in the last part. And the worm-eating warbler and Acadian flycatcher were too deep in the woods to register. But it’s a fine crystalline Sunday on Indigo Hill. 📹: Julie Zickefoose

If you provide mealworms at your bird buffet, limit your offerings to approximately 10 mealworms per day per bird. That can be tricky to estimate, but the goal is to limit the birds' intake of this high-energy snack. Given the opportunity, they'll overindulge, which is to their detriment. Such a rich diet will throw off their metabolism and molt schedule! 📷: Eastern bluebird by OakleyOriginals/Flickr

Zicktorial: North Carolina Morning

Take a morning bird walk in North Carolina with Julie Zickefoose, who wrote earlier this week: Morning NC #zicktorial starring red-shouldered hawk and brown thrasher. I’m betting tons of people have heard this hawk’s lusty screams without ever seeing it.

Zicktorial: Red-eyed Vireo Fight

It's a lively and unusual #Zicktorial this week! Julie Zickefoose wrote: This insane cascade of rapidfire songs and scolds is being produced by two fighting pairs of red-eyed vireos. I was happy to have my phone up and ready to fire when I heard the outburst and they tumbled into view. Territorial defense is not just for males; females can be just as avid. And those plain green birds are anything but boring.

Zicktorial: Hooded Warber & Swainson's Thrush

Sharpen your birding by ear skills with two clips from advising editor Julie Zickefoose, who wrote yesterday: A double barreled #zicktorial with hooded warbler first, and Swainson’s thrush in the second video. Rainy mornings are wonderful for #birdingbyear, because the weather finds birds in a contemplative mood and quiets the rabble. In the thrush video, listen for the spring peeper like call the #thrush gives after his song—a highly distinctive “pweep?” They sometimes throw this call down from the night sky and you know they’re migrating overhead. I’m out in the rain this morning enjoying a little fall out of birds from the full eclipse moon night’s #migration flight.

Zicktorial: Spring Morning Walk in Whipple, Ohio

Enjoy another lesson in birding by ear from advising editor Julie Zickefoose, who writers: I’m always a bit torn about doing a #zicktorial when there’s so much going on. They’re much better when songs are isolated. But I need to give you an idea of just how much is going on that we can enjoy when we tune in to #birdsong —I got 56 species on my hour long morning walk here at Indigo Hill! So just enjoy the soundscape without worrying about being able to pick things out.

Zicktorial: May Day

It's a May Day (and Spanish Mother's Day) tutorial on birding by ear from Julie Zickefoose, who writes: The spring chorus from the green resting place of Bill and Elsa Thompson, founding publishers of Bird Watcher’s Digest. They wanted natural plantings—nothing fancy. Soon the coneflowers will spring up and do their thing. The lilac was from Bill Jr’s Aunt Lolly on the family farm along Duck Creek in Marietta OHio, so that’s what we call her: Lolly Lilac. The redbud and dogwood were here; they just needed to be revealed. Everywhere there are bluebird eggs and nestlings, and I’ve heard and seen 50 species in an hour. Happy May Day to Elsa and Bill Thompson, with gratitude to you both for conceiving and nurturing my favorite birding magazine.