First of all: SWALLOWS. I have been watching for their arrival all week. Yesterday, there were none. Today, Tree...

Here is another in a series of posts that celebrates the beauty hidden in plain sight, the astounding in...

Forest Park, Queens, New York, April 2008 On Thursday, a day that I didn’t have to be at work...

April may be volatile, but this month offers plenteous pleasures intermingled with its abundance of showers. Was T.S. Eliot...

Nuthatches are small, short-tailed, sharp-billed songbirds widely recognized for their ability to hitch headfirst down tree trunks and upside-down...

Since 2006 a pair of Bald Eagles (Haliaeetus leucocephalus) nesting at Turtle Bay in Redding California have successfully raised...

There cannot be many ABA area breeding birds harder to get than those that only breed on the remotest...

The Great Blue Heron nest camera at Cornell’s Sapsucker Woods had essentially been the typical nest camera. Bird lays...