I travel for birding. A lot.  I’m about to head out to the Hula Valley Bird Festival and as...

Or is that Gray-backed Tern? Nope, it’s the Spectacled Tern now! Oh that kooky IOC list. Anyway, returning once...

I have said it before and I will say it again – I love getting to Jamaica Bay at...

All twitchers will experience it at some stage or another. That most dreaded of disappointments. The dip. For those...

The Pied-billed Grebe,  a most wondrous waterfowl, perfectly exemplify the distinction between common and mundane. Podilymbus podiceps is most...

Last week, I mentioned how odd the weather has been around here. By odd, of course, I mean absolutely...

Autumn is a season of transitions and migrations, a slow descent from summer’s heat to winter’s cold. Sometimes blustery...

As the evenings darken and night draws in, some of us are forced to spend more time at home...