As migration proceeds in fits and starts I find myself torn between wanting to find as many birds as...

At the end of a half-morning’s birding I stopped at the south end of the Cross Bay Bridge, just...

Faith and Begorrah, I’ve made it through another St. Patty’s Day without ingesting corned beef, cabbage, or green beer!...

Nassau County, New York, March 2009 After having fully explored the trail around the West Pond at Jamaica Bay,...

Jamaica Bay National Wildlife Refuge, March 2009 It was at about 1:30 AM on Saturday morning that I startled...

Sometimes a species just stops you in your tracks.  So it was with a superlative, breeding-plumaged, male Scarlet Tanager...

It seemed liked an innocuous idea. Seven birders, a boat for hire, and a cruise around lower New York...

If you were ever looking for a reason to pay careful attention to the common birds around you, this...