Fall is well and truly underway and the shoreline is filling with waders and wildfowl. October has seen the return of closer to normal...

Usually when I think of unseasonably mild autumn weather, I picture a last gasp of summer manifesting itself with an early fall heat wave...

Back in March, back when the world realized that a pandemic was happening and that it was spreading with tenacious unconscious determination, Costa Rica...

I bought a new rucksack yesterday and the first thing I checked when I brought it home was, how easily my spotting scope with...

In C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, one of the many fantastic characters is a rather human-like frog creature named Puddleglum. Puddleglum is an endlessly pessimistic,...

Penguins! Penguins here! <pause> Do I have your attention now? There are few bird names that will elicit great big smiles and Penguin is...

Late Sunday afternoon I was relaxing at home trying to recover from my early awakening due to having turned back the clock one hour...

Adam Cairns is a photographer, writer and poet. He is returning to the UK after a four year spell in Qatar, in the Middle...