LONG LIVE THE OAK TREES
After I retired my wife, our older daughter and I purchased a home in the country, 42 acres with a
Read More
Author: Neil A. Case
FALL IS HERE
The sky is clear and blue, this morning, an example of October’s bright blue weather. Today is a few minutes
Read MoreSTOP FOR TURTLES
School bus drivers, oil and gas truck drivers stop for railroad crossings. I stop for turtles. I stop and when
Read More
SAVE THE BIRDS
One hundred years ago, in 1916, representatives of the United States and Great Britain signed the Migratory Bird Treaty. Great
Read More
FLEDGLING ROBINS JUST OUT OF THE NEST – IT MUST BE SUMMERTIME!
I heard a robin chirping when I stepped outside one morning earlier this month. It was a young robin, a
Read More
MAY IS WARBLER TIME
May is the month to look for warblers in Indiana and in the other mid-latitude states of the U.S. May
Read More
MORE ON BIRDS AND CLIMATE
Recently I wrote an article which I titled, Birds and Climate Change. In that article I listed summer birds I’ve
Read More
THE MUSIC OF BIRDS
My sister found it in a used bookstore in Augusta, Georgia, bought it and gave it to me. It’s obviously
Read MoreREDWINGS AT MY BIRDFEEDER
When did red-winged blackbirds become feeder birds? There were seven of them, all males, scoffing up seeds at my bird
Read MoreWATCHING FOR WINTER BIRDS
The leaves have fallen from the maple and oak trees in our yard and from the walnut tree out by
Read More
WELCOMING OCTOBER’S SIGNS OF FALL
October has come, October with its bright blue weather. It’s October, and more and more tree leaves are changing to
Read More
BIRDS AS WINNERS AND LOSERS
The wild turkey, read in a recent magazine article, is a winner. A winner among birds was described in the
Read MoreTHE LANGUAGE OF BIRDS
A robin sang from a branch near the top of a maple tree in our yard, a house wren sang
Read More
SPARROWS AND A WEAVER FINCH
Sparrows have a bad name. Many people don’t like them. Ask why and people who dislike them say they’re just
Read More
IT’S SPRING
Robins have returned after spending the winter farther south. I hear one or two singing from the trees in our
Read MoreBOOBIES ARE DUMB
Boobies are birds. Boobies are also people who are not considered very smart, who are dunces, fools. The two are
Read More
OUTSIDE MY WINDOW
Another dreary, gray-sky day I thought as I sat at my desk one morning trying to compose an article for
Read MoreMARCH IS FOR BIRDS – OUTDOOR NOTES
There are two red-winged blackbirds and a mourning dove on the bird feeder outside my study window. A black-capped chickadee
Read MoreOUTDOOR NOTES: A CONVOCATION OF EAGLES
A telephone caller told me she and her husband had seen twelve or thirteen bald eagles below the dam on
Read MoreOUTDOOR NOTES ROBINS IN FEBRUARY?
January 31st, the end of the first month of the new year, I sat at my desk staring out the
Read More