This doesn’t make any sense to me on several different levels.

It’s hot.  Really hot. Sticky hot.  Painfully hot. Fried-egg-on-a-sidewalk hot.  Hate-the-sun hot. Disgustingly hot. Wander-the-apartment-in-just-underwear hot.  In other words, it is once again summer...

Julie’s six reasons are pretty convincing. And Greg takes number three and expands on it quite a bit in this excellent post.

Arctic Terns are a rarity in New York State.  But Sterna paradisaea can be found pretty much every year at Cupsogue Beach County Park on...

A couple of weeks ago I posted a series of pictures of what I called “Ratty Summer Gulls” – gulls that are just plain...

For the first time since 1918 hunters will be able to hunt Mourning Doves in Iowa – but with one big caveat.  Lead ammunition...

Sitting on my folks’ deck on a summer evening, after the sun has already dropped below the Catskill Mountains the song trills from darkened...

Add manatees to the large (and growing) list of things that the Tea Party can’t abide.  Apparently, not being able to kill large marine...