My first birding excursion to Mendon Ponds, as reported earlier in the week, was an outstanding introduction to the abundant avifauna of my new...

You might want to drop in on the House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and Oceans Oversight Hearing… The House Subcommittee on Fisheries, Wildlife and...

Way back when I started my Anti-Global Warming Big Year I decided that if I flew somewhere and stayed there for more than a...

Moving can be murder, don’t you think? If it isn’t one thing (transporting all of your possessions in boxes across a long distance) it’s...

For the upcoming 3rd anniversary edition of I and the Bird, we’re asking a rather direct, if not altogether awkward question: Why are you...

Being upstate is great.  Not only do I get to see my folks, swim in their pool, and enjoy the great outdoors, but I...

I’ve always been an enormous fan of Monty Python’s Flying Circus. I love everything they’ve done, but of their movies, I’m most enamored of...

Most of us in the good old U.S. of A. are looking at a long, lovely weekend in celebration of our nation’s independence from...