A northern shrike was the most interesting sighting of the past week.

While many of us are thinking Thanksgiving season–it is hard to believe that this year’s celebration is already past.

Those gray, black and white tern-like birds that are flocking out in the Sound or in our coastal ponds are Bonaparte’s gulls.

There is a flock of five ravens–possibly a family group but lacking any documentation of their breeding. It is not impossible!

One of the most impressive spectacles of the bird world is to be amidst a large swarm of tree swallows as they swirl, swoop and soar around you.

Four and Twenty Fish Crows By ROBERT A. CULBERT

Coniferous seeds in the boreal forests of Canada are in short supply this fall. And so the prediction is that many of the winter finches will head further south than they normally do. The first hint of this irruption is the abundance of red-breasted nuthatches over the past few weeks. They are reported from across the Island in numbers not seen in maybe five years.