Our first full day in the Bahamas was slated to be our big birding day. Having done a fair bit of research before setting...

PARADISE ISLAND, BAHAMAS – JANUARY 2006 — The first bird Sara and I spotted in the Bahamas was the same species as our last...

Long-eared Owl, rear view Close views of our friendly neighborhood kestrel yesterday morning along with the welcome weekend warmth augured well for our annual...

My sister and I brought Mason to catch the last weekend of the New York Botanical Garden Holiday Train Show. The trains weren’t exactly...

True to form, our unseasonably warm weather snapped just in time for the weekend. Twenty-four hours of torrential rain was followed by twenty-four more...

My efforts to bag one last life bird before 2005’s end proved futile. There were no winter finches or white-winged gulls for me, no...

Our holiday travels took us away from the Bronx-Westchester Christmas Bird Count, so we decided to do a bit of avian enumeration of our...

My hometown has a bit of a reputation as a wild place, but not in the “supportive of exotic wildlife” sense, if you know...