The southwestern most part of Queens, at the end of the Rockaway Peninsula, is Breezy Point. The small community...

Here in the U.S., we’re still on the more temperate side of Memorial Day, after which summer unofficially begins...

When Francois sent me an image of a presumed Snowy Egret he got at Jamaica Bay this weekend I...

This is just a quick post to share two of the latest birds that made it onto my year...

The Black-fronted Dotterel is a small distinctive shorebird that is usually found near fresh water and is often heard...

This great bird has managed to escape from my sightings until I visited the great lodge of Tundaloma.  This...

The Edwards’s Pheasant is a rather smart blue-black member of the pheasant family and it may be on the edge...

Spotted Sandpipers are cool little birds, easily identified by a host of field marks and behaviors. Their stiff-winged flight...