I have long wanted to see a Burrowing Owl.  They are owls, which automatically gives them a certain cachet, and they are little, which...

Have you embarked yet upon your first true birding excursion of 2011? I haven’t, and my avian inactivity is pissing me off! If you...

Saturday was the 76th Long Branch Christmas Bird Count, a count I’ve compiled since 2008. It’s a fun, diverse count with coastal lakes, ocean...

It’s been a very wintry winter here in southeastern Ohio. As each passing front has embraced our ridge-top farm, it has given us new...

If you really would like to get better digiscoping photos, then here are a few points and some base-line knowledge that will hopefully help...

Having grown up in Africa, I regard myself as extremely fortunate to have spent most of my life in close proximity to some of...

Happy New Year! Did you ring in 2011 with style? More important, did you get your year’s birding off to auspicious start? Alas, for...

The noisiest bird to visit our garden any time of year is the Grey-crowned Babbler Pomatostomus temporalis and the family group is usually eight...