Swainson’s Hawk

Mark Faherty talks about the birds showing up at your feeders.

How did a hemisphere-trotting hawk of the arid west get to Cape Cod?

Mark Faherty talks about the different types of birds returning to the area this time of year from the Golden-crowned Kinglet to the Ruby-throated Hummingbird

Mark Faherty talks about the surging bird populations on the Cape in the springtime.

Ornithologist Mark Faherty talks about the return of a Tufted Titmouse making its return to Nantucket.

What we lacked in numbers of the common owls, we made up for with encounters with some of the more sought after species.

Looking at waxwings and eiders to find their unusual relatives among the flocks.

The first results are in.

Big flocks of birds tend to draw in other birds, including any lost waifs from elsewhere. Sometimes just looking out the window can reveal a rare bird in your yard.

The Atlantic puffin is a real crowd-pleaser. While people know them as a nesting bird of rocky Maine Islands in summer, small numbers winter in deep Massachusetts waters.