The first weekend of April, with all of the hilarity and spring fever it inspires, has passed, which brings all of us north of...

At the moment we are observing thousands of shorebirds leave from Roebuck Bay each evening and head north on migration. Our home is actually...

The Common Tailorbird, Orthotomus sutorius, is a small warbler whose range extends from India to southern China and down into Indonesia. It is common,...

Way back on the first day of March, Doug, who is a good birder and a decent guy despite his Brooklyn roots, and I...

First comes April Fools Day, then April showers, and then my birthday. Clearly, as far as months go, April isn’t exactly front-loaded. But during...

It was Saturday afternoon.  I was chatting on the phone about blog stuff with Mike, as we tend to do, when he heard what...

I was lucky enough to get off work early the other day and thought I would head out toward Battle Creek Wildlife Area and...

One of the joys of blogging for a widely read blog is that it gives one a platform on which to moan and complain...