I travel for birding. A lot.  I’m about to head out to the Hula Valley Bird Festival and as I’m packing, I thought I...

Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once again to one of my...

I have said it before and I will say it again – I love getting to Jamaica Bay at the end of a day...

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. That most dreaded of disappointments. The dip. For those that might not fully comprehend,...

The Pied-billed Grebe,  a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane. Podilymbus podiceps is most certainly common in my experience,...

Last week, I mentioned how odd the weather has been around here. By odd, of course, I mean absolutely lovely. I know these patterns...

Autumn is a season of transitions and migrations, a slow descent from summer’s heat to winter’s cold. Sometimes blustery and rainy, sometimes warm and...

As the evenings darken and night draws in, some of us are forced to spend more time at home with our families instead of...