It’s been eight days since my trip on Friday, 3 July, to upstate New York to see the Mississippi...

Just yesterday, 3 July, I headed north out of the city by bus, met up with more birders in...

Shai Mitra is a birder-extraordinaire, a wonderfully patient teacher, a member of the New York State Avian Records Committee,...

A million colors come with spring but one particular shade of blue bedevils the imaginations of northeastern American birders...

I have been fortunate over the last week in that my folks let me borrow their car, which means...

Part of my meticulously crafted Father’s Day celebration (after the rain-lashed finale of an amazing Rochester Jazz Festival) was...

My friend Laura encountered a Lawrence’s Warbler, which is a rare Blue-winged/Golden-winged Warbler hybrid, just a week ago. This...

For months, I’ve been looking forward to making a trip to Montezuma NWR. This New York birding hotspot, conveniently...