The islands of the Lesser Antilles are famous for shorelines bordered by white sand and lapped gently at by vivid turquoise water. Further inland...

After an entirely fruitless first night looking for owls, we were much more successful on the second night, getting good views of two of...

I was on Tenerife, Canary Islands, last week and I took the opportunity to stay a couple of days longer to revisit some old...

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...