Bernie Sees A Bird

Tag: Birds

  • Bushtits: What’s up with their name?

    With a name like Bushtit, I had to find out the story behind it. Here’s the best explanation I found, from animalia.bio: American naturalist John Kirk Townsend first described the species in 1837, after spotting it in the forests along the Columbia River. He named it Parus minimus — “parus” being Latin for titmouse, and…

  • Nature’s Alarm Clock: the Pileated Woodpecker

    I was looking forward to sleeping in last Sunday morning but a pileated woodpecker had other plans. Its unmistakable call yanked me out of bed, and before I’d fully processed what I was doing, I’d thrown on clothes and wandered outside to find it. Still half asleep, I dropped into a chair on the back…