Summer weekends often mean summer road trips, mixed blessings at best. Of course, we love to visit new places and enjoy cool breezes at...

July often means travel, which sometimes means tourist attractions, which occasionally means exotic or introduced bird species. Following me here? Encountering exotics raises all...

July rarely ranks high in the list of top birding months. Too few species on the move makes for the same old same old....

A very public individual who shall remain nameless recently targeted my part of the world in a typical rant, disparaging “…an area that just...

There are two kinds of travel in this world: the kind where you get to see great birds and the other kind. Right now,...

July has settled like a hot, muggy blanket over my part of New York, offering little more than streaky, young American Robins for entertainment....

July can be very special time of year, but the birding rarely reaches the level of excitement our migratory months deliver. Enjoy this season...

Robert Frost once observed that happiness makes up in height for what it lacks in length. But why choose? The first weekend of July...