Pity the plight of the blogger! Blogging, particularly nature blogging, is a tough business. The challenge of standing out among the countless other blogs...

So this past Sunday was really a banner day for me birding and photographing birds in Queens.  In addition to the Scarlet Tanager and...

Now that we’ve surpassed 100 editions of I and the Bird, let’s get the next century (metaphorical, although it may feel literal) of the...

May is moving away from us and with it, masses of migrants headed to their summer or winter abodes. If you’re the type who...

After our relatively short trip from Astana to the Korgalzhyn State Nature Reserve made long by we birders insisting that we stop for every...

After the Scarlet Tanager and host of other birds at Jamaica Bay on Sunday I thought I would wander across Cross Bay Boulevard and...

This past weekend was the Queens County Bird Club‘s annual Doodlebash, a weekend of birding Doodletown Road in Bear Mountain State Park and the...

After our nice drive across the steppe from Astana we arrived at the location where we would eat lunch: the not-yet-opened Korgalzhyn State Nature...