Nothing is quite as much of a downer to a birder than the summer doldrums. Migration hasn’t really kicked...

Here we are immersed in the fullness of May. I wonder how many recognize just how special this time...

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was the most popular American poet during the nineteenth century though as the years have passed...

Wallace Stevens’ “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” is a marvel of modernist poetry. It is only 246...

Time for some poetry! What can I say about Roebuck Bay… The pindan cliffs, the miles of sea A...

Back in 2007, DK Publishing produced what I still consider the consummate birding coffee table book.   If you...

“Purple Martins” first appeared in print in Carl Sandburg’s 1920 collection of poems, Smoke and Steel, published six years...

The quote “What Is So Rare As A Day In June?” may be familiar to most readers (the sentiment...