Now that Daisy and I have a child our number of visits upstate have lessened dramatically.  The thirty-minute subway ride to Manhattan followed by...

My job, union job that it is, is lousy with holidays.  Our contract is solid enough that we get Good Friday off – even...

Remember how I asserted that one of the features that establishes Ecuador as one of the best countries for birdwatching in the world was a...

As I did about a week and a half ago (and described here) I recently took another stroll across a large chunk of Queens,...

On Tuesday, my last day of my leave of absence before my return to work (sigh) Daisy was kind enough to to let me...

May 2009 was ‘Puerto Rico Month‘ here at 10,000 Birds, the celebration of which culminated in a giveaway of a free ‘Endemic Dash’ tour courtesy of Kevin...

So there I was at Refugio Paz de Las Aves, teetering on the edge of sanity after a barrage of insane Ecuadorean avifauna. First came the famed...

You poor suffering souls who come back repeatedly to read the dreck that I write about my assorted birding adventures will recall that last...