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...

A big bruiser of a bird, the Glaucous Gull is nothing if not bulky.  It sometimes looks like a gull built from a child’s...