With 2010 receding in the rear view mirror I had a great morning out birding on the first day...

Until today I had never seen a Fork-tailed Flycatcher.  It seems somehow fitting that a mere week after returning...

It is the twenty-sixth of March.  By the calendar, spring has been here for nearly a week.  Red-winged Blackbird...

A third visit to the vacant lot in Queens with the lingering vagrant Ash-throated Flycatcher was the charm on...

On 22 November, an Ash-throated Flycatcher Myiarchus cinerascens was seen in an unassuming and overgrown vacant lot in Queens...

Since I’m headed to Hotel Mocking Bird Hill in Jamaica in November (and you’re still invited to join me),...

While wood-warblers are a wonderful type of bird to watch they are not the only species making their way...

Empidonax flycatchers… you can’t live with them, you can’t build a complete life list without them. As countless as...