This past Tuesday marked the centenary of the première of The Lark Ascending, a work for solo violin and orchestra by the English composer...

I don’t know what those so-called meteorologists are doing: they all claim a moderately cold morning, but do not say a word about the...

It was the month of March, 2017, when I went to Lake Cuitzeo to check up on our migratory waterfowl and shorebirds one last...

The holidays that characterize the last few weeks of the calendar year may designate this time of year the season of giving, but nature...

Finally the weather has changed! For months and months we have had to wait patiently for rain. All of the ephemeral lakes have been...

I originally reserved this week’s featured wine for a Hallowe’en review that I never got around to writing. The 2013 ‘Tyto alba’ from Companhia...

November and early December can be a frustrating time here at Nanhui – on the one hand, there are fewer and fewer birds as...

As birders, we’re all well aware of our brain whipping our body awake at some ungodly hour, no matter how tightly wrapped in the...