Keep your eyes to the skies for chickadees and tits Ready to close the books on the summer of 2014, northerners? We in the...

Henry James knew all about how transcendent this time of year can be, at least up here in the northern temperate zone: “Summer afternoon—summer afternoon;...

Keep your eyes to the skies, especially when you’re above the clouds in the Andes! Many Northern Hemisphere birders see summer as the nadir...

Summer, by which I mean accepted as opposed to seasonal, surges towards its inevitable end and I find myself wondering when real summer, by which...

Keep your eyes to the skies for scrappy little birds harassing bigger birds… more common that you’d think! Sometimes the weather and the calendar...

If you read my weekly posts bookending the weekend birding experience, you know that I pay close attention to phenology. The way the ebb and...

Hoping for a hot one this weekend, though maybe not Africa desert hot!  While most humans tend towards vagrancy, at least in the vacationing...

Summer weather ain’t what it used to be around these parts. An ill-timed polar vortex has sucked all the heat–and fun— out of mid-summer....