It is summer and I live in Queens. That means it is time to look for shorebirds on the East Pond of Jamaica Bay....

Birders deal with the summer doldrums in a number of different ways – some turn to herping, and others to dragonflies; some travel, and...

Back in the US of A! And everything that goes with it. We arrived in Seattle 6 days ago, at 12:30 in the morning,...

Cloud forest is a special habitat and not just because the Resplendent Quetzal calls it home. Even if you don’t happen to be an eager birder...

Summer is normally the vacation season, for ordinary tourists at least. Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel...

I want to start this posting with an official appology: you see I feel it is owed to Scotland, Wales, and England, or more...

In the fall of 2017, my mother and favorite birding buddy visited the mountains of Montana for a fishing trip. While hiking along a...

It is Tuesday night, and I am sitting in a historic hotel, just a kilometer or so north of the Scotland/England border. It seemed...