by a New Yorker?!? Rich Guthrie of Albany describes his trip to the bottomland and glimpse of what may have been the Lord God...

Eerie. Sinister. Unnaturally still. These are apt descriptions for those wondrous waders, the night herons. These stout birds of the genera Nycticorax and Gorsachius...

Rich Guthrie, one of the deans of Albany-area birding, posted this on the local and state listserves: Yes, out of area, but I thought...

When considering all of the benefits I’ve enjoyed from participating in various blog carnivals over the year, I wonder why every blogger doesn’t do...

A recent walk around Papscanee Island, on the same day I saw the American Robin’s nest, rewarded me with some cool pictures of insects....

the Sunday edition of the New York Times Week in Review looked at Creatures on the Knife’s Edge, including five imperiled North American bird...

with the second edition of Learning in the Great Outdoors, the carnival of environmental education.

Spring migration is sublime, like the fragrance of exotic blossoms, like the promise of health to one who has ailed for a long time....