I am sure you know how it goes…when you are a birder, your friends (non-birders) will tell bird stories, anecdotes or ask questions about...

The male Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) is unmistakable. He is the only tanager with strong wing bars, the anterior wing bar (median coverts) being...

After all the excitement (such as it was) of last week it was nice to have an escape route from the city already lined...

The natural attractions of midsummer seem more subtle than those enjoyed during the frantic peregrinations of the world’s migratory species. But tasteful birders can...

It has been, by many aspects, a strange summer for me. Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by at the blink of an...

Blackbirds are blackbirds. Meadowlarks are meadowlarks. In the new world all meadowlarks and blackbirds, along with grackles, cowbirds, orioles, oropendulas, and some others, are...

The swallows here in Montana have an admirable ability to assort themselves into nesting niches. Bank Swallows live in our many sandy banks. Tree...

Niagara Falls… where water blends into sky Summer weekends cry out for adventure. Are you seizing the day or shrinking from the moment? I’m...