We love our stuff, stuff being the term affectionately given to the objects with which we populate our lives. In birding, we like to...

I love reading children’s books, even though my child is well over the age when she asks to have them read at bedtime and...

One of the reasons I enjoy about reviewing books is the opportunity to read titles I wouldn’t ordinarily encounter, not because they aren’t good...

Birding being a visual and an auditory pursuit, it’s not surprising that publishers have taken advantage of the media of its day to produce...

I’ve been a fan of The Mincing Mockingbird since the hoary days of Livejournal. Matt Adrian’s characteristic style features acrylics of birds against stark...

Sometimes, it’s the simplest things that are the hardest to execute. So, while we are in awe of an identification guide that discusses every...

Over the past 6 months I have done a lot of walking on beaches and a lot of carrying of equipment to enable me...

Sometimes it takes an unexpected question. When my friend Victoria, who lives in Georgia and who is an avid birder but who is not...