Snowcaps are simply surreal. Not the sublime chocolate ones crowned with sugar but the live feathered ones that look like they have been dipped...

This year you get two listy posts for the price of one. You lucky, lucky birders! The idea being that putting December and the...

The beats are on the move, exploring new places. That bodes well for the numbers this month. And of course, we have an extra...

Summer is normally the vacation season, for ordinary tourists at least. Birders follow different patterns of bird migration and their local activities and travel...

The beginning of the northern summer is a good time (as any) to dream of some of the most biodiverse places on Earth. No,...

In the summer time before the shorebirds come back the birding can seem a bit slow. Sure, birds are around, especially if you are...

Wow. What an amazing year for birding and traveling in the year 2013! I recorded a personal best of 1,587 species across only four...

While the year 2012 was rather dismal for me as far as birding is concerned, it did allow me to plan 2013 carefully to...