weekend

Most people I know are obsessing over watching eclipses, to the extent that they’ll be traveling hundreds of miles for…

We birders share common cause with farmers in our obsession with seasons, always wondering what new crop of avifauna is…

Mid-August may feel like the doldrums where you are, but you can trust that more birds are coming your way….

The first week of August marks that point in the year where most people I know start to bemoan the…

Real seasons shift more quickly and subtly than our crude quartile scheme suggests. While the calendar asserts that we in…

A very public individual who shall remain nameless recently targeted my part of the world in a typical rant, disparaging…

Rumor has it that we’ve turned a seasonal corner and can expect gradual cooling north of the Equator with commensurate…

There are two kinds of travel in this world: the kind where you get to see great birds and the…

Summer may be the season that best illustrates the stark difference between being outside and being in position to see…

July has settled like a hot, muggy blanket over my part of New York, offering little more than streaky, young…