If you live anywhere along the Mid-Atlantic Coast up to Maine, you’re probably happy that the weekend is over for a change. Hurricane Irene...

Summer thankfully persists in the Northern Hemisphere, but that doesn’t necessarily mean the birding remains dull. Shorebirds are on the march and, all too...

Have you used August as an excuse or incentive to travel? I highly recommend it, but then again I always advocate travel, no matter...

If you love to learn new things, nature will never let you down. Let’s take crows for instance. Far too many Americans live in...

Have I mentioned recently that summer is my favorite season? For me, nothing beats a hot, sunny summer, though you wouldn’t know it based...

Yow! If your weekend was as hot as mine, you’re undoubtedly dragging your weary carcass into this new week. I don’t know what your...

Perfect weeks like the hot (but not too hot) one we’ve just enjoyed here in western New York remind me how good summer is...

Holiday weekends rank among my very favorite things, but they can be somewhat problematic. At what point, for example, is it proper to ask...