We’re heading into the third weekend of November, which every year (so far) is followed by the fourth weekend...

Radiation is funny. Not funny ha ha, but rather, funny strange. The health effects of radiation are not at...

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

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

I have said it before and I will say it again – I love getting to Jamaica Bay at...

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. That most dreaded of disappointments. The dip. For those...

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

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