When not in the radio studio, Dwight Davis likes to go afield with his binoculars and watch birds. "Birdnotes" is a result of his long-time interest in birds, a short feature that can be about almost any aspect of bird life, from migration to coloration to birds in art to song.
The Downy Woodpecker
Diminutive and Demure
2/26/2024 • 0
Tail Waggers
Why Wag?
2/19/2024 • 0
The Broad-Winged Hawk
Sotto Voce Raptor
2/5/2024 • 0
Mozart's Starling
A Musical Pet
1/29/2024 • 0
The Chickadee
Cheerful in the Cold
1/19/2024 • 0
Scoters
Look, but don't eat
1/15/2024 • 0
Feathered Winter Mites
Birds Small and Busy
1/5/2024 • 0
Swans a' Swimming
on the 7th day of Christmas
12/29/2023 • 0
A Christmas Bird
The European Goldfinch
12/22/2023 • 0
Beethoven's Birds
Ludwig the Birder
12/19/2023 • 0
Halcyon Days
Kingfishers calm the waters
12/8/2023 • 0
December Ducks
A Day at the Beach
12/1/2023 • 0
Loud Songster
The Wren
11/24/2023 • 0
Migration and Mortality
It's not easy being a bird
11/17/2023 • 0
Migration and Mortality
It's not easy being a bird
11/17/2023 • 0
Yellow-billed Cuckoo
A John Burrow's observation
11/10/2023 • 0
The Pitohui
A poisonous bird
11/3/2023 • 0
As thin as...
An avian simile
10/27/2023 • 0
Baltimore Oriole
A Bird Named After a Lord
10/20/2023 • 0
Teal
What's in a Word?
10/6/2023 • 0
Avian Onomastics
The Red-bellied Woodpecker
9/29/2023 • 0
Feathered Males and Females
Sexual Dimorphism
9/22/2023 • 0
Clever Corvids
Sorting the Crows
9/15/2023 • 0
Bird Thoughts in a Vermont Forest
What I did on my Summer Vacation
9/8/2023 • 0
Molting
Feathers Old and New
9/1/2023 • 0
Which White Waders?
Distinguishing herons et al.
8/25/2023 • 0
The Pewee
Lazy summer sounds
8/18/2023 • 0
The Tailorbird
Feathered sewer
8/11/2023 • 0
"Timberdoodle"
The Woodcock
8/4/2023 • 0
Birds Beat the Heat
Staying cool
7/28/2023 • 0
Grackles
Avian Dissonance
7/21/2023 • 3 minutes, 18 seconds
Le Coq Gaulois
Vive la France
7/12/2023 • 0
A Sound of Summer
The Red-winged Blackbird
7/7/2023 • 0
Birds for the Fourth
Avifauna from Colonial Times
6/30/2023 • 0
Summer Tanager
Bright welcome to the season
6/22/2023 • 0
Feathered Father
The Phalaropes
6/12/2023 • 0
June Magic
Song of the Wood Thrush
6/9/2023 • 0
The Song Sparrow
Another spring song
6/1/2023 • 0
The Seaside Sparrow
a surfeit of sparrow names
5/26/2023 • 0
The Chipping Sparrow
Garden Friend
5/18/2023 • 0
The Great Crested Flycathcer
Another sound of spring
5/12/2023 • 0
The Rose-breasted Grosbeak
Bright spring visitor
5/4/2023 • 0
May Birds
Misnamed warblers
5/4/2023 • 0
The Blur-Gray Gnatcatcher
An early spring arrival
4/21/2023 • 0
Happy Birthday, Leonardo
All that and a birdwatcher too
4/14/2023 • 0
Hong Kong birds
big city birds
4/7/2023 • 0
Avian Laughter
The Kookaburra
3/31/2023 • 0
The Cardinal
lusty spring singer
3/24/2023 • 0
The Red Kite
A Bird for St. David's Day
3/3/2023 • 0
Elusive Birds
I Know You're in There!
2/3/2023 • 0
Birdsong Therapy
Listen to the science
1/27/2023 • 0
The Bird of Washington
Audubon's mistake
1/20/2023 • 0
The Dunlin
"..smaller than a breadbox"
1/13/2023 • 0
The Wakatobi Sunbird
A new bird for the new year
12/30/2022 • 0
Bobolinks on the Move
Edwin Way Teale's observations
8/26/2022 • 0
The Java Sparrow
Bach Bird
8/12/2022 • 0
The Bullbats are About
Sounds of Summer
7/29/2022 • 0
Staying Cool
Birds Beating the Heat
7/21/2022 • 0
The Magic of Birdsong
Listen to the Mockingbird
5/30/2022 • 0
The Mimids
Thoughtful mimics
5/27/2022 • 0
The Redstart
Feathered Perpetual Motion
5/2/2022 • 0
Upland Plover
An Aldo Leopold observation
4/28/2022 • 0
Audubon
Rustic genius
4/18/2022 • 0
The Broad-winged hawk
Sotto voce raptor
4/8/2022 • 0
The Fox Sparrow
Rufus Winter Visitor
2/11/2022 • 0
Eider Down
Feathers Against the Cold
1/28/2022 • 0
The Snow Bunting
The real snowbird
1/19/2022 • 0
The Northern Lapwing
An Unexpected Visitor
1/14/2022 • 0
The Cordillera Azul Antbird
In honor of E.O. Wilson
12/31/2021 • 0
The Twelve Days of Christmas
Birds for Christmastide
12/27/2021 • 0
Halcyon Days
Winter Calm
12/27/2021 • 0
Euphonic Bird Names
Bird Music of a Different Sort
8/18/2021 • 0
Song for the Journey
The Swainson's Thrush
6/1/2021 • 0
The Yellow-Rumped Warbler
Winter to Spring in Miniature
3/1/2021 • 0
Accipiter Confusion
Sexual Dimorphism
12/30/2020 • 0
The Kakapo
New Zealand's Bird of the Year
11/19/2020 • 0
Bird Colors
An Avian Palette
11/13/2020 • 0
The Glossy Ibis
Primative and Sacred
11/5/2020 • 0
"The Parking Lot Gull"
The Ring-billed Gull
10/22/2020 • 0
The Prothonotary Warbler
Golden Swamp Warbler
6/29/2020 • 0
The Robin
Spring Singer
4/16/2020 • 0
Terms of Venery
delightful collective nouns
2/7/2020 • 0
The Cedar Waxwing
Lovely and Unusual
2/5/2020 • 0
Aldo Leopold
November Sketches
11/17/2019 • 0
"Close to Birds"
"...makes a perfect gift."
11/8/2019 • 0
Elusive Birds
Checklist Challengers
10/20/2019 • 0
The Shearwaters
A Life on the Ocean Wave
10/2/2019 • 0
Ouzel
What is an ouzel? The answer involves both etymology and ornithology.
1/20/2019 • 0
Grackles
Glossy and discordant.
1/1/1 • 0
Louisana Waterthrush in October
skylark they never wert
1/1/1 • 0
Tail Wagging
Who wags and why
1/1/1 • 0
Kookaburra
The Laughing Jackass doesn’t live in the jungle.
1/1/1 • 0
Open Field Visitors
What to watch for in winter.
1/1/1 • 0
The Chickadee
Winter Cheer
1/1/1 • 0
The Ouzel
The Little Dipper.
1/1/1 • 0
Red-Eyed Vireo
Persistant summer songster
1/1/1 • 0
December Ducks
Waterfowl visitors abound in the winter.
1/1/1 • 0
The Osprey
The One and Only
1/1/1 • 0
Loud Songster
Loud Songster
1/1/1 • 0
Pewee
The languid sound of summer
1/1/1 • 0
Mimids Three
Accomplished Songsters
1/1/1 • 0
The Rails
As thin as...
1/1/1 • 0
Le Coq Gallois
A bird for Bastille Day
1/1/1 • 0
La Gazza Ladra
La Gazza Ladra
1/1/1 • 0
The Fire-Hangbird
Lord Baltimores feathered namesake
1/1/1 • 0
Golden-Winged Firebird
Jules Verne was not an ornithologist
1/1/1 • 0
Valentine Birds
Valentine Birds
1/1/1 • 0
A New Bird
The Sezhuan bush warbler
1/1/1 • 0
The Year of the Bird
Bird news for the new year
1/1/1 • 0
Bright Feathers for the Journey
Bright Feathers for the Journey
1/1/1 • 0
The Indigo Bunting
Bluer than blue
1/1/1 • 0
Crows
Distinguishing the Corvids
1/1/1 • 0
The Chipping Sparrow
A true feathered friend.
1/1/1 • 0
The Prairie Warbler
Welcome, Sweet Spring
1/1/1 • 0
Teal Green
The duck came first.
1/1/1 • 0
The Towhee
Towhee, chewink or drink-your-tea
1/1/1 • 0
The Gannett
The Gannett
1/1/1 • 0
The Yellow Of Warblers
Bright Springtime Palate
1/1/1 • 0
What is a Timberdoodle?
The American Woodcock
1/1/1 • 0
The Scary Cassowary
Definitely not Big Bird
1/1/1 • 0
Colonial Birds
Birds of the Founding Fathers
1/1/1 • 0
Chimney Swift
The original twitterer
1/1/1 • 0
A New Year Bird
Wilson’s antbird
1/1/1 • 0
Spring Song
Forever Young
1/1/1 • 0
The House Finch
Hollywood at your feeder.
1/1/1 • 0
Irrupting Raptors
Waiting for a visit from the imposing hunters from the north.
1/1/1 • 0
The Willett
An easy ID
1/1/1 • 0
The Black Swift
Avian Secrets
1/1/1 • 0
The harlequin and the turnstone
Birds from the Picasso Field Guide
1/1/1 • 0
The Curious Colies
“On the Fourth Day of Christmas...”
1/1/1 • 0
Cormorant
The shaggy-topped fisherman
1/1/1 • 0
Orange-crowned Warbler
Defining non- descript
1/1/1 • 0
Football Birds
Feathered mascots
1/1/1 • 0
Nestling Mortality
facts of life and death
1/1/1 • 0
The Phoebe
Avian name calling.
1/1/1 • 0
Lincoln’s Sparrow
Not named for Abe.
1/1/1 • 0
Swans
Swans
1/1/1 • 0
Hummingbird Migration
The ruby-throat flies the Gulf
1/1/1 • 0
Laughing Gull
Laughing Gull
1/1/1 • 0
American Pipet
Walking Winter Visitor
1/1/1 • 0
Autumn and Spring Colors
Feather and leaves in fall and spring
1/1/1 • 0
Cooling
Birds beating the summer heat
1/1/1 • 0
Red-Headed Woodpecker
Remembrance of birds past.
1/1/1 • 0
The Ovenbird
Mysterious song at eventide.
1/1/1 • 0
An Irish Bird
Emerald Isle Birds
1/1/1 • 0
The Shoveler
The Shoveler
1/1/1 • 0
The Fox Sparrow
Robust, foxy visitor
1/1/1 • 0
The Skylark
Blythe Spirit
1/1/1 • 0
Yellow-rumped Warbler
small and drab, but everywhere
1/1/1 • 0
Downey Woodpecker
Little Drummer Bird
1/1/1 • 0
The Wood Thrush
Der Meistersinger
1/1/1 • 0
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker
The danger of habitat specialization
1/1/1 • 0
Audubon
Audubon
1/1/1 • 0
The Christmas Bird
The Christmas Bird
1/1/1 • 0
Birds in the Twelve Days of Christmas
Just what is a colly bird?
1/1/1 • 0
Spring Symphony
Songs of an April Morning
1/1/1 • 0
St. Francis and the Birds
St. Francis and the Birds
1/1/1 • 0
The Pitohui
Toxic birds.
1/1/1 • 0
From a Winter Window
Feathered Mites
1/1/1 • 0
Storm Petrels
Oceanic water walkers
1/1/1 • 0
Fantastic Fliers
Endurance Champion
1/1/1 • 0
Mulberry Birds
Mulberry Birds
1/1/1 • 0
Fairy Tern
The wispy white bird without a nest
1/1/1 • 0
Snowbird
Snowbird
1/1/1 • 0
The Bluebird
Gentle harbinger of spring
1/1/1 • 0
The Wheatear
Long distance champion?
1/1/1 • 0
The Piping Plover
Rhymes with "lover".
1/1/1 • 0
Father Knows Best
the phalarope
1/1/1 • 0
Red Winged Blackbird
Memorable summer sound
1/1/1 • 0
Kinglets
Active feathered mites.
1/1/1 • 0
The Voice of the Turtle
The Voice of the Turtle
1/1/1 • 0
Window Watching
Window Watching
1/1/1 • 0
The Scaups
The Mussel Ducks
1/1/1 • 0
Edible Birds
Edible Birds
1/1/1 • 0
Kites
Kites
1/1/1 • 0
A New Bird for a New year
...but where is it?
1/1/1 • 0
Carrier Pigeon
Feathered war heroes
1/1/1 • 0
Hong Kong Birds
Some avian observations from the other side of the world.
1/1/1 • 0
The Hoatzin
One strange bird.
1/1/1 • 0
Fuel for Migration
“…keep repeating it’s the berries”
1/1/1 • 0
Happy Birthday,Roger Tory Peterson
Father of the Field Guide
1/1/1 • 0
The Darkling Thrush
Thomas Hardy’s songster.
1/1/1 • 0
The Yellow-billed Cuckoo
Foraging in suburbia.
1/1/1 • 0
John Gould
John Gould
1/1/1 • 0
Isaak Walton's Birds
Isaak Waltons Birds
1/1/1 • 0
Bird of Washington
Bird of Washington
1/1/1 • 0
The Readstart
Perpetuum Mobile
1/1/1 • 0
The Tailorbird
Sewing a nest.
1/1/1 • 0
The Chestnut-sided Warbler
Now common, colorful migrant
1/1/1 • 0
Yellow-rumped Warbler
Magical spring transformation
1/1/1 • 0
The Eagle and the Child
Despite the tall tales, eagles do not fly off with children.
