As I mentioned in my last post, Lassen Volcanic National Park is a great birding destination. You can see some of my older Lassen Park posts...

A few weeks ago I unexpectedly found myself in Canberra for a few days. Australia’s capital, set in the eucalypt-studded Great Dividing Ranges, has...

I love terns. I find them graceful, entertaining, and a symbol of some truly incredible migrations. Plus, there was once a time when I...

I was upstate again this past weekend, collecting Desi from his week with his grandparents, and took a couple of hours early Sunday morning to...

That breeze wafting through your weekend may have been blessedly cool or tantalizingly hot, but, meteorological considerations aside, the winds of change are blowing....

“Extraordinary claims require extraordinary proof” Carl Sagan   The ABA checklist committee has recently added the Egyptian Goose to the official ABA checklist, based...

Since discovering our first Pied Oystercatcher nest on Cable Beach in July 2000 we have observed the breeding of these local shorebirds along the...

One of the many things about birding that keeps us heading back into “the field” is the opportunity for the unexpected. No matter how...