Weekly Articles by Eric Moore

Each year I donate a ‘Bird Walk with Eric Moore’ to the Highland Center for Natural History’s ‘Wander the Wild’ fundraising event in the fall. This past Tuesday I had the opportunity to take the winners on their bird walk and it was truly an amazing day. We started at...

Did you know that the second Saturday of May each year is designated as World Migratory Bird Day? This is a worldwide effort to further migratory bird conservation by focusing on the urgent need to protect migratory birds and their habitats. This past week, I...

Recently, on a Jay’s Bird Barn-sponsored guided bird walk, I discovered a hummingbird nest under construction. Our group was birding in Watson Woods, and I was lucky enough to see a hummingbird fly by, and I visually followed it and saw her land on her nest. Finding a...

Today is Earth Day, a day dedicated to protecting and preserving our world. I hope you will take time today to do a “self-evaluation.” What kind of a steward are you? What are you doing well environmentally? Where do you think you can do better? I’ve always...

Between Friday and Saturday of this past week, I packed in a lot of birding and saw well over 100 different species. On Friday, I visited Page Springs, Bubbling Ponds and Sedona Wetlands. The highlight of my birding was seeing three different gull species at Sedona...

Spring migration is in full swing, and nowhere is this more evident than at our local lakes. Both Watson and Willow lakes are designated by the National Audubon Society as “Important Bird Areas.” Our local lakes are used by thousands of migratory birds each year as a...

I categorize our customers into groups—field birders and casual, backyard birders. Field birders spend a lot of time bird watching away from their homes, out in nature — maybe at Willow or Watson Lake — or any number of other locations. In contrast, backyard birders...

Earlier this week, my wife and I went on a walk in Watson Woods. Almost as soon as we got out of the car, I could hear a Lucy’s warbler singing. A short time later, on the same walk, we saw a not-so- common (in this area) common black hawk. Seeing two spring arrivals...

Interestingly, our store is situated between two cemeteries. Directly behind the back of our store is the Arizona Pioneers’ Home Cemetery, and across the street from us is the Mountain View Cemetery. The variety of birds we’ve seen from our parking lot has been...