There are three species of waterfowl that birders in most of the eastern United States are going to encounter...

…The talons went in through the helmet.” Or so says cyclist Charlie Newhouse, one of many victims of a...

Holiday weekends rank among my very favorite things, but they can be somewhat problematic. At what point, for example,...

If you’ve never seen this music video, something like an avian West Side Story with Blue Jayz vs. Northern...

Yellow-crowned Night Herons have a presence about them when they are hunting that reminds me of Buddhist monks.  If...

Last Saturday we spent the day at Herdsman Lake in Perth due to a sudden work trip for Grant, which...

Bird blogging is a privilege, in that recounting one’s birding excursions is a lot more fun when an audience...

Black Skimmers are another of those birds, like White-breasted Nuthatches, that people can’t help but like.  They have awesome...