It doesn’t seem like 12 years since the Olympics were in Sydney, but time has slipped by and the area that was used for...

This post comes by way of an assignment. After seeing an albino squirrel in a Redgannet post, The Management wrote to me suggesting that...

First of all: SWALLOWS. I have been watching for their arrival all week. Yesterday, there were none. Today, Tree Swallows are here, flashing light...

I am so sick of the feral cat colonies that infest so many locations that I like to bird. And while I am sick...

Here is another in a series of posts that celebrates the beauty hidden in plain sight, the astounding in the ordinary. Our subject today...

Forest Park, Queens, New York, April 2008 On Thursday, a day that I didn’t have to be at work until noon, I, of course,...

April may be volatile, but this month offers plenteous pleasures intermingled with its abundance of showers. Was T.S. Eliot being sarcastic when he penned...

Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down along limbs. The family has...