Birding’s Holy Grails. They lurk ever-present in our sub-concious as sacred items on an unobtainable, yet highly desirable, list. We pour over photographs, read...

I have a feeling that this summer is going to be weird. How else to interpret the sudden arrival of April showers (and temperatures)...

Want to learn how a kid goes from reading Mr. Popper’s Penguins to being an ace birder? Read Greg Swick’s great post about his...

On Friday night Seth Ausubel, my frequent birding buddy, and I discussed our birding options for Saturday morning. A pretty major front was supposed...

A songbird was found on a flight between Taiwan and Los Angeles and authorities believed it escaped from the custody of someone trying to...

    At the onset of this post, let me firmly state that I love taxonomy. I even attended taxonomy classes at university. Biogeography,...

So, it is now officially winter! After several weeks of temperatures dropping to 10c (50f) we really feel like we are experiencing Winter here...

In my previous blog Bird Photography Equipment Lens and filters I compared two telephotos which I use regularly, the 300 f/4 IS USM which...