Do you grow tired of lugging a camera into the field on the off chance you’ll see something you need to document? Have you...

What do you say when someone tells you they will be spending the summer in the Lower Michigan Peninsula?  If you are a birder,...

In my previous blog Bird Photography Equipment Lens and filters I compared two telephotos which I use regularly, the 300 f/4 IS USM which...

We now interrupt all talk about birds and migration to consider dragonflies. And damselflies. Together they comprise Ondonata, an order of insects that, like...

Specialization is not always aesthetically appealing to the generalist scavenging creatures who have so effectively taken over the planet – aka, all of us....

How to Be a Better Birder is a very different kind of birding book, and, once you think about it, the perfect book to...

This is going to be a rave review. I like Julie Zickefoose’s art, her writing, her blog, her blog posts here on 10,000 Birds,...

I’ve spent the odd hour sea-watching from both land and sea. I’ve sea-watched with some very experienced birders whose ability to identify species almost...