As I mentioned in my previous post the last visit I made to Forest Park was relatively birdless but the bugs did their best...

Monday was a well-spent vacation day.  Why?  Well, Charlie was in town and we went birding at Jamaica Bay!  I’ll leave it to Charlie...

Way back when I started my Anti-Global Warming Big Year I decided that if I flew somewhere and stayed there for more than a...

One thing that I like about this time of year is bugs.  Sure, migration is over and the hordes of wood-warblers are busy breeding...

In Albany’s Pine Bush recently Daisy and I came across a pair of moths that were, we assume, mating. Neither of us had ever...

During this past summer whenever I was outdoors and the birds weren’t showing I took pictures of the dragonflies that I spotted. I’ve managed...

Earlier this month I found and photographed this spider in my grandmother’s backyard. I finally got around to trying to figure out what it...

Common Milkweed (Asclepias syriacea) is an easily recognizable plant with a range that encompasses virtually all of North America east of the Rocky Mountains....