I am sure you know how it goes…when you are a birder, your friends (non-birders) will tell bird stories,...

The male Western Tanager (Piranga ludoviciana) is unmistakable. He is the only tanager with strong wing bars, the anterior...

After all the excitement (such as it was) of last week it was nice to have an escape route...

The natural attractions of midsummer seem more subtle than those enjoyed during the frantic peregrinations of the world’s migratory...

It has been, by many aspects, a strange summer for me. Especially the bird breeding season, which passes by...

Blackbirds are blackbirds. Meadowlarks are meadowlarks. In the new world all meadowlarks and blackbirds, along with grackles, cowbirds, orioles,...

The swallows here in Montana have an admirable ability to assort themselves into nesting niches. Bank Swallows live in...

Niagara Falls… where water blends into sky Summer weekends cry out for adventure. Are you seizing the day or...