Ah, sweet summer, how I love you, despite your lack of migratory birds. Henry James understood how sweet this time of year can be...

Those of you that don’t avoid this site on Wednesdays to avoid my posts may have noticed that I didn’t post last week. This...

Picture this: you are on a lake, with dusk just beginning to fall. The surface of the water is calm, and a light breeze...

All standard calendars include a 4th day of July, but we in the United States place just a bit more emphasis on recognizing that...

The Gulf Stream lies between 20-40 miles off the North Carolina coast, and to the unpracticed eye it looks scarcely different that the expanse...

Following on from last week we are venturing up the Fairfield-Leopold Road and it really is in pretty good condition for a gravel road,...

The Squacco Heron, Ardeola ralloides is an Old World heron, closely related to (and sharing a genus with) the eastern pond-herons.  It shares the common...

The United States sets the fourth day of July apart to focus with white-hot intensity (splashed with red and blue) on the concepts of...