I will soon be just one year short of Sir Paul McCartney’s mythical musical age (64, that is, not his current age), in which...

The reason that La Mesa is my new favorite local birding destination is not just that it is so close to home; it is...

Pithecellobium dulce is a tree with many English names. The most common one, Manila tamarind, is wildly inaccurate, since the tree is native to...

I recently noticed that one of our other writers had included an easy-to-use link to a birdsong recording in one of their posts. This...

Every year, around this time, I feel the need to get an early start and drive a full hour to Cerro de Garnica. That...

When I got back into birding about six years ago, I would not have predicted the personal bonds a birder can form with certain...

I took a couple of weeks “off” from chronicling my weekly outings, in order to give my thoroughly amateur recommendations on bird photography, for...

It always surprises me when people compliment my photographs. As I have often commented on this site, I started taking photos of birds only...