In a recent article on birding in USA Today, I was quoted as saying the following: Nate Swick, editor of the ABA’s blog, says...

While at Jones Beach State Park on Saturday, co-leading the digiscoping field trip (with Clay Taylor from Swarovski Optik), I had a couple of...

Blue-gray Tanager is a bird reasonable to expect in the U.S. as a vagrant someday…they are common in many habitats in eastern Mexico. If...

What is up with the birding community in the northern part of the US recently? Have we all gone completely mental? I recently heard...

I have a really great spotting scope, an angled Swarovski 80mm HD scope with a 20 – 60 zoom eyepiece (and sometimes I alternate...

Britain might have had new species to add to it’s list, then again maybe it didn’t.  Not only seen by hundreds of observers, many...

Snowy Owls are iconic birds. You rarely find a person – birder or non – who doesn’t want to take a good long look...

One of the things that has vexed me about my fellow bird watchers is the inability to read signs. Well, that’s not fair. It’s...