During our time of living in Pretoria in South Africa, we occasionally made trips to Cape Town and the surrounding regions. As none of...

This post was originally published on September 22, 2015. It is republished in our new “From the Archives” series, by which we want to...

As we all know, butterflies like warmth and sunshine, so I didn’t expect to find many during my recent visit to Mallorca. I did...

Mallorca not only has the largest wetlands in the Balearic Islands (see my last week’s post), it also has the highest mountains. The Sierra...

Here in the southern part of North America, it’s hard to come up with a family of birds that is more colorful than the...

Years back, I learned about Eagle Lakes Park in Naples from the Great Florida Birding Trail guide book. When I first visited, I had...

One visit to South Africa just is not enough. There is too much to see and do. On our first visit, we failed to...

When writing about kingfishers, my first thought is always to come up with some lame statement about kingfishers being the poor man’s pittas –...