When I was a kid, my dad called them “flying stoagies”, something he picked up from an old ornithology professor.  I always thought it...

It was a gusty weekend in New York City and environs, with fall finally feeling like fall is supposed to feel.  Sparrows have almost...

Though it was pretty warm for an October morning when I spotted this bird at Fort Tilden, Queens, it was fluffed up as if...

One of my greatest joys is photographing birds out my big studio windows. I have lots of plants that attract birds; clumps of gray...

Before we went away for a few weeks we only had a Crested Pigeon visit our garden occasionally, but we now have a regular...

Despite regularly hearing their bubbling song emanating from undergrowth and the fact that they are widespread and common I have never managed to get a really...

As a form of entertainment, it may lack the sophistication of America’s Got Talent, but watching a gull trying to swallow a starfish is...

Do you know what I love about October? Pumpkins! Everywhere you look in the United States around this time of year, giant orange squashes...