There are so many wonderful places to go birding in California. You have the sea, the mountains, desert habitats, islands, forests – it seems...

December is a month of flux. Not only do we see dramatic changes in both light and weather during the last weeks of the...

December is a special month occupied almost entirely for most people by holiday preparation, shopping, and celebration. December makes for some great birding too,...

November’s end signals an end to a season of change and the beginning of a time of stability. Birds are still, as ever, on...

As we approach a long holiday season, birders’ thoughts turn to more than just meals and merriment. Songs of turtledoves and swans a’swimming are...

Mid-November holds the dubious honor of being one of the most mundane birding periods imaginable in most temperate zones. Not to say, of course,...

Halloween weekend tends to be a distracting weekend at best for birding activity. Not only do parties and parades beckon, but finding a costume...

October is on the wane, but the birds just keep coming. Maybe they’re going. Either way, we just want to be where they are....