After sixteen days touring the interior west and west coast of the United States with my family I am back in New York City....
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It’s been beautiful here in Montana lately. By beautiful, I mean too cold, too gray, and as always too dry, but full of birds....
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Things you may not know, but should: 1.) There is an International Festival of Owls. 2.) They give out a “Champion of Owls” award....
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When I was a child, we called them locusts. They appeared sometime between when we started to worry about the water level in the...
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“Self,” I said to myself, “it is Thursday. You have used up all your New York blogging material. You need something to write about.”...
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Since I don’t drive, the vast majority of my birding is self-propelled. Biking and most especially walking tend to accustom a person to a...
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The first time I saw a Western Tanager, it was in New York. In Central Park, to be exact. It was exciting — to...
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As the name suggests, the National Bison Range is mostly known for its large mammals. Besides the American bison that the refuge was founded...
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