While February offers some good birding (wintering waterbirds, gulls), it is a kind of an anticlimax after the intensive and hectic schedule of the...

Birding after long flights is a double-edged sword. On the one hand you’ve flown halfway across the world, or all the way across the...

I recently returned from my family’s annual spring trip to Florida, and unlike years previous I didn’t get any special time set aside to...

Ecology is amazing. We see interrelationships between plants, animals, and other features of a biological system that can be very complex and in various...

White Ibis flying in to roost along Biolab Road at dusk. Few things are as nice as being at Biolab Road at dusk with hundreds...

St. Patrick’s Day weekend teaches us many lessons, more than a few of which concern parades, alcohol, and nationalism as fashion. But this time...

Stop and stay, don’t move that mouse. I still know my audience – this is primarily a blog read by birders in North America, who...

I mentioned last week that there were supposed to be snakes present at Westgate Park, though I did not see any. There had also...