In December in the northeastern United States you expect snow.  In New York City so far this year we have only had a dusting...

Do you know what is really annoying?  When someone regularly birds the same spots that you do but manages to get much, much, much,...

I have said it before and I will say it again – I love getting to Jamaica Bay at the end of a day...

Finally!  It took long enough but I have finally seen an Eurasian Wigeon in my home borough, at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge’s East Pond...

The Management are out of the office this week and in the absence of adult supervision, the beat writers have been running amok. The...

…at Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge anyway.  The famed East Pond, where so many wonderful shorebirds have shown, had issues with its draining system this...

Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks.  If “The greatest prayer is patience,”...

On a recent all-too-brief visit to that Mecca of birding in my home borough I was doing my best to get some good flight...