Summer often means vacation. Vacations mean travel. Travel means new ecosystems. New ecosystems mean new birds. See why I love summer? My travels with...

The true treasure of the Sierra Madre is its stunning beauty (and jays) In the Southern Hemisphere, days are growing just slightly longer, while,...

Don’t mourn the passing of the summer season just yet. Believe it or not, we still have all of August and much of September...

American poet, novelist, and playwright Paul Laurence Dunbar saw summer the way many of us do, reflected in the wild world around him. Does...

Was your weekend pleasingly full or pleasurably empty? We measure our happiness not in moments of activity but rather memories of satisfaction. I was...

July is almost over, which means summer is almost over, right? Of course not, but those of us who live for the warmest months feel...

It is truly getting into the dog days of summer here in the northeastern United States. Temperatures in the nineties (Fahrenheit – global warming...

Keep your eyes to the skies… maybe you’ll get lucky and see wild Scarlet Macaws! Midsummer birding can become boring if you focus solely...