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....

My family and I spent last week in Cape Cod, enjoying a last summer getaway in a summer where getaway options have been extremely...

Most birders know what a nemesis bird is and, most of all, what that truly means. It happens to every birder and it may...

In the era of digital cameras and social media, images of birds are easy to come by. Even photos of the rarest of birds...

What I truly hate about the pandemic is that it mentally puts me back into the 1990s in the Balkans. Tensions, failing economy, depression...