Driving down Rupert Road you will undoubtedly see lots of birds as you make your way toward the Anderson River Park entrance. As you...

Despite being the borough that is home to Williamsburg, where irony goes to die, Park Slope, which obnoxious doesn’t even begin to describe, and,...

On the pelagic trip off the coast of New York this past Sunday one of the highlights of the trip was seeing the small...

Though it may sound like Dick Cheney’s fondest dream – putting fifty-plus fanatics on a boat for eight hours in the Atlantic Ocean in...

Over two years ago, when I was doing a New York State Big Year, one of the birds that I tried to see but...

Daisy, Desi and I had a wonderful Christmas visiting my folks upstate.  One of the nice things about seeing so many relatives is that...

When a birder sees a really, really, good bird and another birder doesn’t see the bird, the first birder will often “grip off” the...

One tends to think of birding as an idyllic pastime.  One goes into the field, sees gorgeous creatures, identifies them, and then brags to...