Henry James knew all about how transcendent this time of year can be, at least up here in the northern temperate zone: “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon;...

Keep your eyes to the skies, especially when you’re above the clouds in the Andes! Many Northern Hemisphere birders see summer as the nadir...

What happens when you visit one of the best birdwatching sites in the region with the highest number of endemic bird species in the...

Summer, by which I mean accepted as opposed to seasonal, surges towards its inevitable end and I find myself wondering when real summer, by which...

Keep your eyes to the skies for scrappy little birds harassing bigger birds… more common that you’d think! Sometimes the weather and the calendar...

Can you remember the world before blogs? I’m tempted to say I’ve been blogging for all of my adult life, but if you’ve seen...

If you read my weekly posts bookending the weekend birding experience, you know that I pay close attention to phenology. The way the ebb and...

Hoping for a hot one this weekend, though maybe not Africa desert hot!  While most humans tend towards vagrancy, at least in the vacationing...