Though Blue Jays often manage to avoid letting me get a decent shot of them I managed to outsmart the clever corvids yesterday. I...

This past weekend in the United States was important for a number of reasons. Much of the Mid-Atlantic is still recovering from Hurricane Sandy...

This quiz is truly diabolical. All three pictures show small fragments of birds that were photographed in Queens in the last two weeks. That...

On our recent trip to Kununurra we encountered a rather odd looking bird. At Ivanhoe’s Crossing there were numerous Crimson Finch drinking and bathing...

My plan for this morning was simple. I was going to drive out to the Rockaways, the barrier beaches in Queens, and find a...

Troglodyte (noun) 1. a member of any of various peoples (as in antiquity) who lived or were reputed to live chiefly in caves 2....

A Blue-headed Vireo Vireo solitarius taking off from a branch in Alley Pond Park, Queens, New York, on 1 November 2012. Click it to embiggen...

Just before I left for Italy, I took a trip to the Lee Metcalf Wildlife Refuge for a healthy dose of migration. It was...