owls

Who doesn’t love a good owl? There are few families of birds where despite a cosmopolitan distribution I’m always so…

It’s almost Halloween! As your resident writer of horror fiction (check out my latest at The Dark!) this is my…

I am not generally given to superstition. I do not, for instance, indulge in the strange tradition of saluting Mr…

It is a cold night in early March and the young moon barely visible through the thick branches of the…

Few things can spell out “winter birding” as poetically as the sighting of a rare northern owl that has more or…

Here are some things I’ve learned from the Peterson Reference Guide to Owls of North America and the Caribbean by…

Instead of waiting for the spring to come to me, I prefer to travel south to greet it. (One may…

Owls are among the birds with the greatest power to fascinate non-birders, for good and ill. From the ancient Greeks…

On the second day of the Space Coast Birding and Wildlife Festival I wasn’t scheduled to lead any field trips….

Laid out as I was with some nasty virus for most of my trip to Sydney, a lot of the…