While I was in Maine for Memorial Day weekend I managed to get away early one morning, on Memorial Day itself, to check out...

Transitioning your birding ambitions from migrants to residents isn’t so bad this early in the season. If you got out this weekend, you probably...

The first time we ever observed an Australian Painted Snipe was on Grant’s birthday in 2011 near Broome and since then we have had...

If you noticed an earlier omission (who am I kidding, nobody reads this rubbish), I can only apologise and put it down to a...

If you’ve ever tried to break a bad habit or encode a good one, you’ve learned how critical the concept of momentum is. The...

Somehow, when I started writing this story, I just could not get Maria Muldaur’s 1974 hit out of my head….”Midnight at the Oasis”. Well,...

I’ve lived in Queens for eight years now and have visited Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge over one hundred times while I’ve been here. Every...

This Memorial Day weekend may still be rolling for Americans, but even the standard two-day array can hold a lot of excitement this time...