Sara and I saw our first, to date our ONLY, Eastern Screech-Owl on August 12, 2003. I remember the sighting vividly, but the date...

Who doesn’t love a long weekend? Amidst the pleasures of entertaining friends and family and my fruitless attempts to catch up on some sleep,...

Happy Thanksgiving to you and yours from the Core Team. As this holiday is called Turkey Day in a most ironic jab towards the...

New York has recently played host to all sorts of wayward rarities from a Magnificent Frigatebird out of the Caribbean to a Western Kingbird...

The further north from the equator you dwell, the deeper November drives you into darkness and cold. Those hardy, some might say foolhardy, souls...

The view from most Bronx apartments usually lacks for interesting natural or architectural features. We’ve been lucky in that from our window we can...

The leaves are nearly off the trees in New York, which is usually cause, at least in my case, for despair. But the colder...

Back before I discovered the pleasures of birding, I used to hike. The Core Team loved nothing more than embarking on wilderness excursions of...