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When Mike and I were in New York’s Sterling Forest the other day it wasn’t just the abundance of Blue-winged and Golden-winged Warblers that ensured we had a great morning out, but also a close encounter with a very special moth…

Every year people on both sides of the Atlantic report sightings of “strange hummingbirds [...]

The acquisition of a new field guide is always a joyous occasion, signaling either an impending journey or impending answers to old questions. By the latter, I’m referring to those unclosed cases that accumulate any time a nature lover ventures outdoors armed with a camera but not a clue. As you can imagine, my digital [...]

Some years ago I thought that birds were where “natural history” started and birds were where “natural history” finished. Yes, there were Tigers and Snow Leopards, I wanted to Save the Whale, those glossy-red mushrooms that could kill you from across the room were pretty cool in a morbid kind of way, hairy spiders and [...]