Early Friday afternoon I checked my personal email on my phone while I was at work. And was I ever dismayed to see that...

At five-forty-five Sunday morning I started the eBird checklist while perched atop the Battery Harris Platform at Fort Tilden. It was the sixth year...

Bird migration! In October, it’s what’s happening in Costa Rica. Our big month of bird movements in Costa Rica, the 10th month of the...

It’s been almost five years since the last time I blogged about a visit to midtown Manhattan’s Bryant Park. This pocket park is well...

In Costa Rica, sandpipers are locally known as “correlimos”, which to me sounds something along the lines of “little runners” and that sounds about...

Moving means finding your new birding haunts. We all have them: our favorite places to take friends and family when they visit, the bird-friendly...

Migration is happening. Every birder knows it. Even if we couldn’t find time to raise the bins at a favorite patch, it only takes...

In January, we moved to a new place at a slightly lower elevation yet still located in the Central Valley rather near the main...