This past Saturday, 10 October, was my favorite birding event of the year. Yes, it was the Queens County...

On the northern birding calendar, October is a time for sparrows, cool weather, and tired fall leaves.  It’s when...

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

Every place has its hawk. At least it seems that way. A generalist raptor that can keep on living...

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

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

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

What I truly hate about the pandemic is that it mentally puts me back into the 1990s in the...