Comprehensive surveys of U.S. birders are rare, so the recent release of a “National Survey of Birdwatchers: Nationwide and Flyway Comparisons” is notable. Although...

With the sad passing of Prince Philip this week I thought I should share with you a book that we own that he wrote....

Birds are arriving in North America, flying from places far to the south. Many come from Central America, a good number fly much further....

Photographic nature guides have been with us for a long time, but have reached their adulthood only recently. There are some magnificent photos of...

A cheeky lad, Geoffrey McMullan was regularly subjected to brutal discipline at his English boarding school.  He found some solace when, at age eleven,...

I will soon be just one year short of Sir Paul McCartney’s mythical musical age (64, that is, not his current age), in which...

Ask any birder–migration is joy. It’s endless frustration that suddenly erupts into wild excitement, a reason to get up in the morning, a goal...

In many ways, birding has led me straight to my new interest in wildflowers.  Looking for birds naturally makes you more aware of your...