Today and tomorrow, Laura is talking about birds in the news. Today she covers the bad news.

Laura's baby chickadees may have fledged, but the cavity they built in her cherry tree has attracted a new bird.

Last week, Laura spent 45 minutes watching and recording a Connecticut Warbler in the Sax-Zim Bog.

Dickcissels are usually not found in northern Wisconsin or Minnesota, but this year is an exception.

Laura and her little dog Pip took a pleasant trip to Port wing yesterday.

The baby chickadees in Laura's cherry tree fledged on Friday.

Sunday, a Gray Catbird reminded Laura why it belongs on her Top Ten List of Favorite Birds. Throughout the program, you can hear the catbird that was singing on Sunday throughout today's program.

Laura spends a lot of time worrying about her nesting chickadees. She can't help it.

The chickadees nesting in Laura's backyard depend on plenty of insects to raise their young, raising Laura's awareness of how important caterpillars are right when people are turning to pesticides to eradicate insects. In the Washington, D.C. area where cicadas have been emerging, birds are being found dead and dying from something neurological that is causing them to go blind. We don't know what the cause is, but it quite possibly is the pesticides people are using to eradicate the cicadas.

Laura's large flock of Evening Grosbeaks made the front page of the Duluth News-Tribune and instantly went on their way.