I’m a New Yorker.  I was born in the Hudson Valley and grew up in the Catskills, went to...

In recounting my Rochester Snowy Owl encounter last week, I mentioned my new birding buddy, Laura Kammermeier.  Bill of...

bird blogs most often (per capita)?  Washington State, of course.  StateStats lets one choose a term and see what...

In birding parlance, a “spark bird” is the species that mutates one’s benign regard for nature into a seething,...

As always, the “Just for Fun Avian ID Quiz” is brought to you by Jory Langner, our esteemed Avian...

Years ago, I wrote about the glaring homogeneity in North American birding circles and by glaring, I mean all...

Saturday, two days after Thanksgiving, started with a predawn dark ride up the Thruway from Saugerties to Coxsackie where...

When I am having anything larger than the mailbox in my apartment building shipped to me I specify that...