I hope you did not expect any list of favorites from me – liking things is not really my core competence. So, here is...

Having been to New York City on many occasions, I had never had the opportunity to visit Central Park, all of my trips over...

There is a German word, fernweh, which, according to the internet, literally translates to “farsickness,” but it is used to describe the feeling of...

When I grew up in the seventies we didn’t have global warming, we had global cooling (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_cooling). Consequently, the summer weather was awful, always....

Although it was once difficult to obtain reliable birding information in the United States, there is now so much information that curated summaries are...

In April 2022, I wrote: The American Birding Association has not had a permanent leader since November 2021. The Board of Directors has been...

Miriam Darlington determined to take on an owl quest, to immerse herself in their world, as she says, and also to find out how...

Perhaps a little more shock-inducing and paradoxical than concepts of birding at sewage ponds or graveyards, an oil refinery seems to be the antithesis...