With 2010 receding in the rear view mirror I had a great morning out birding on the first day of 2011.  The undisputed highlight...

Until today I had never seen a Fork-tailed Flycatcher.  It seems somehow fitting that a mere week after returning from my first visit to...

It is the twenty-sixth of March.  By the calendar, spring has been here for nearly a week.  Red-winged Blackbird hordes have gone through, and...

A third visit to the vacant lot in Queens with the lingering vagrant Ash-throated Flycatcher was the charm on Sunday.  Thanks to Danny and...

On 22 November, an Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens was seen in an unassuming and overgrown vacant lot in Queens next to the Aqueduct/North Conduit...

Since I’m headed to Hotel Mocking Bird Hill in Jamaica in November (and you’re still invited to join me), I’ve been brushing up on...

While wood-warblers are a wonderful type of bird to watch they are not the only species making their way south each fall.  Everything sparrows...

Empidonax flycatchers… you can’t live with them, you can’t build a complete life list without them. As countless as the stars above have been...