After seeing the Burrowing Owl on Thursday night last week and talking to some other birders I realized that Friday was shaping up to...

Any day that includes a sighting of a Red Knot is a good day for a birder.  The bird we see in the northeastern...

The Great Egret is a great bird.  With a dagger attached to a head that has glaring eyes and distance from body as its...

Black Skimmers are another of those birds, like White-breasted Nuthatches, that people can’t help but like.  They have awesome bills that slice through the...

Until recently I had only ever seen a single Sandwich Tern.  It was back in July of 2009, the day that I saw more...

I could watch terns all day long.  Flying, hunting, calling, preening, or just sitting around, I find terns fascinating.  It just seems so improbable...

As if Cory’s Shearwaters, a Brown Pelican, and Royal Terns weren’t enough, Seth, Dave, Bobby and I made our way out onto the mudflats...

On Saturday, for the second weekend in a row, my plan to get on a boat and search for seabirds off the tip of...