Gerald Manley Hopkins, Englishman, Catholic convert, priest, and poet, was born in 1844 and died of typhoid fever in 1889.  In between he wrote,...

Holy role-reversal, Batman! Check this out.

Folks might remember that last year I did what I grandly called an Anti-Global Warming Big Year, the idea of which was was to...

How was your weekend? Any good birds? Tell us about your best bird. My best sighting was a Carolina Wren in my backyard, a...

New York City is full of surprises.  For example, did you know that John James Audubon, you know, THE John James Audubon, the nineteenth-century...

I’m going to be in Lansing, Michigan, for two days next week for work and will have a couple of hours open one evening...

August is on the march and I don’t think I’ve had an ideal dragonfly day yet. If you haven’t either, you really need to...

On Saturday I met up with Patrick, that nice guy from The Hawk Owl’s Nest, at Jamaica Bay for some birding.  Unfortunately, the birds...