When trying to attract finches, it can be feast or famine.  Some days you get bunches and bunches, other times you might feel totally rejected by them. I recently had a conversation with a colleague who works for the Department of Natural Resources.  He’s a smart guy, a wildlife biologist and what he knows about [...]

High on a hill over the town of Copan Ruinas sits the Hacienda San Lucas, a small hotel with a great restaurant that serves authentic (and delicious) Mayan food.  The entire birding group was there to eat dinner on our first night in Copan Ruinas, and it was one heck of an amazing meal!  But [...]

This past Mother’s Day saw the Core Team hosting a family brunch. Three phases of motherhood were represented in Sara, the beautiful mother of my beautiful children, my own mother, and my sister-in-law, Ursula who is a mother-to-be. To honor our guests, maternal and otherwise, I tried a fancy new recipe for Bananas Foster French [...]

Cooking is an act of love. Though this simple truth resonates with all of us on a certain gut level, I only realized it when Sara and I had kids. We prepare meals every day, multiple times a day in fact, in an effort to provide not just life-sustaining nourishment but the kind of quality [...]

This weekend, I will be hosting the Carnival of the Recipes. Surprised? Actually, food is a passion of mine, one that I don’t often blog about but still follow all the time. In fact, I’m in the middle of The Ominivore’s Dilemma and it’s blowing my mind! The theme of my upcoming edition will be [...]

John of A DC Birding Blog, originator of the 10 Most Beautiful Birds meme, has made good on his promise to instigate a   10 Favorite Bird Songs list. Students of the blogosphere may note that a list is less infectious and has less sociological sway than a meme. I’m sure that many who succumbed to [...]

Overindulgence in the cornucopia of Thanksgiving delights has rendered me unable, for the time being, to continue my seemingly endless treatise on how to host a blog carnival.  I’m going to talk instead about the topic foremost on my mind right now – food. Now let’s talk turkey! Actually, as someone who tries (but sometimes [...]

Today is Thanksgiving Eve here in the U.S. which means that most of us are already salivating over the prospect of tomorrow’s feast. Traditional Thanksgiving fare includes stuffing, potatoes, yams, and, of course, turkey. But whither the green vegetable in this avalanche of carbohydrates and animal protein? How many of us find room on our [...]