dragonflies

On Monday the weather changed. It is that time of year when everything changes. Our migratory shorebirds have mostly departed…

Birders of the 21st century have it good, especially those of us who speak and read English. We can bird…

We now interrupt all talk about birds and migration to consider dragonflies. And damselflies. Together they comprise Ondonata, an order…

A friend of a friend named Daryl Cavallaro took this stunning shot of a Merlin snagging a snack recently at…

Digiscoping is really hard. Isn’t that what everyone keeps saying? That it is almost impossible to get a good quality…

Unrest and revolution in Egypt has caught the international headlines this week. Mubarak’s ousting has left a military regime holding…

I spent a great day on Saturday, 29 May, visiting a variety of parks in Orange County and Rockland County…

On a recent birding outing around Forest Park the birds had made themselves scarce but the bugs were out in…

My first birding excursion to Mendon Ponds, as reported earlier in the week, was an outstanding introduction to the abundant…

During this past summer whenever I was outdoors and the birds weren’t showing I took pictures of the dragonflies that…