Birds

After having retired last Friday (yup, you heard that right) I thought it would be nice to just relax around…

While I was in Maine for Memorial Day weekend I managed to get away early one morning, on Memorial Day…

I’ve lived in Queens for eight years now and have visited Jamaica Bay Wildlife Refuge over one hundred times while…

Black Woodpeckers are usually easy to find in Germany. Yes, some birders may frown at this statement. At least one…

I start my day with a coffee, a strong Turkish coffee without sugar – it is the stuff that makes…

It is not every day that you get the chance to see a hummingbird’s nest. And it is even less…

I was especially pleased with this sighting of an American Woodcock for so many reasons. For a start, it was…

When I was a kid, and couldn’t travel, I thought patch birding sounded dreadfully boring. Now that I can travel,…

Mid-to-late April keeps birders in the northeastern United States on edge as we want to see every species as it…

Way back in the days when blog posts still got a lot of comments, I wrote a piece on why…