While at Flushing Meadows Corona Park near my house in Queens this evening putting my new lens through its...

Birds make other birds.  This is a simple fact of life.  Birders watch birds.  This too is a simple...

Shawn Billerman is a graduate student at the University of Wyoming studying birds, though his degree will likely use...

Warning, if you can’t tell by the title of the post, it’s going to get a little blue in...

I hope you love birds too. It is economical. It saves going to heaven. -Emily Dickinson This week of...

At the end of a half-morning’s birding I stopped at the south end of the Cross Bay Bridge, just...

When you spend a lot of time outdoors you get to see strange things happen. Birds are consumate improvisors...

Sometimes hawks, in particular, Red-shouldered Hawks will go all Turdus migratorious, hop on the ground and nosh some slimy...