The warm weather this weekend put me in the mood to go birding. The sleek Sharp-shinned Hawk that flew over my building motivated me...

Blogging is terrific fun. Everybody’s doing it and earning their whopping $2.00 a year from Adsense while they’re at it. At the current rate...

of science is served up in issue #66 of the Tangled Bank with extra segues over at easternblot.net.

to save the albatross from extinction. Estimates suggest that 100,000 albatrosses are inadvertently killed each year by long-line fishing boats.

Patrick of The Hawk Owl’s Nest put together a scintillating Birder Survey, one that I’ve been remiss in completing. Time to rectify that now…...

On a day as fraught with peril and opportunity as this, one likes to trot out George Bernard Shaw’s old chestnut that “democracy is...

Did you know that Tuesday 11/7 is Election Day in the US? In the spirit of the day, why not elect to participate in...

The Core Team attended a Bat Mitzvah (Mazel Tov, Jessie!) in New York’s Putnam County this weekend. The reception, which was a total blast,...