Though I grew up where the Hudson Valley meets the Catskill Mountains, in the heart of Black Bear country, I can count my encounters...

Lake Junaluska is surrounded by mountains, beautifully situated in scenic Western North Carolina, near the famous Blue Ridge Parkway and Great Smoky Mountains National...

This is the second in a however-many-parts-it-takes series about western vagrants showing up on the coast of North Carolina. So long as these birds...

For every state vagrant that shows up at a feeder or in a public park, there seems to be one that turns up in...

For the past several weeks a pair of Trumpeter Swans have made themselves at home along a road through Mattamuskeet NWR in eastern North...

There’s a time, when you’ve been standing in the rain in the middle of a cow pasture in western North Carolina, amongst mud and...

5:15 am is never easy to see, but I rolled out of bed regardless. My friend Paul Taillie and I had to meet an...

There’s probably nothing in the birding world that engenders as much ire as the perception of suppression. one of the tenants of our community,...