I consider myself fortunate that I learned to love summer birding before I ever knew what the summer doldrums are, if only because summer...

Today is our final Friday of spring before next week’s solstice marks the beginning of the astronomical summer in the Northern Hemisphere. Meteorological summer...

Drinking is an act of risk and vulnerability, though it’s such an everyday part of our existence that no one thinks of it that...

New York has wonderful birds. I love New York’s birds with a passion, from the parti-colored pigeons to the spring warbler fiesta to Jamaica...

To anyone considering spending time on the serene summer shores of Lake Michigan, I applaud your discerning taste. My family and I are enjoying...

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

It’s hot.  Really hot. Sticky hot.  Painfully hot. Fried-egg-on-a-sidewalk hot.  Hate-the-sun hot. Disgustingly hot. Wander-the-apartment-in-just-underwear hot.  In other words, it is once again summer...

Gulls can be gorgeous.  Gulls can also be not very gorgeous at all.  In summer, when feathers are worn and younger birds are molting...