I bought a new rucksack yesterday and the first thing I checked when I brought it home was, how easily my spotting scope with...

Late Sunday afternoon I was relaxing at home trying to recover from my early awakening due to having turned back the clock one hour...

Adam Cairns is a photographer, writer and poet. He is returning to the UK after a four year spell in Qatar, in the Middle...

If the birding world had an official holiday, it would have to be Global Big Day (GBD). No other date captures the attention of...

This past Saturday, 10 October, was my favorite birding event of the year. Yes, it was the Queens County Bird Club Big Sit, our...

On the northern birding calendar, October is a time for sparrows, cool weather, and tired fall leaves.  It’s when Orange-crowned Warblers share the Goldenrod with...

For the first 30 something years of my life, fall migration was when the warblers “sipped”, “chipped” and “seeped” in the tired, late summer...

Every place has its hawk. At least it seems that way. A generalist raptor that can keep on living in a human dominated landscape....