Early August is a bit of a dead time for birding in Shanghai unless you like your birds as little white spots at the...

Got to cover the home front occasionally, even though it gets harder and harder. Construction is still ongoing at Nanhui, there are constant rumors...

In some places, birds have to live with large amounts of trash in their environment. Fortunately, some have found creative ways to deal with...

The last few days, I have been mildly obsessed with a Velvet Underground cover version of “I’m waiting for the man” by Matt Berninger...

Ronald Reagan once said that “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I’m from the Government, and I’m here to help.”...

Mengbishan is about five hours away from Balangshan by car, on a road that is partly excellent, partly horrible. The horrible essentially meaning half-an-hour...

Ruoergai is a large grassland in Sichuan on the far eastern edge of the Tibetan plateau. This is a wetland with an altitude mostly...

With my favorite Shanghai birding place at Nanhui getting gradually destroyed under the watchful eyes of the local government favoring Tesla over terns, I...