Olean Times Herald

As I've written before, I enjoy planning a birding trip almost as much as I enjoy the trip itself. A few years ago, I spent a good part of the winter ...

In his Bulletin of the Buffalo Society of Natural Sciences entitled "Birds of Cattaraugus County, New York," published in 1981, Dr. Stephen W. Eaton w...

The conservationist Aldo Leopold once wrote, " EASTERN PHOEBE The Eastern phoebe (pronounced FEE-bee) is our most common flycatcher and it's not unusu...

In the last column, I wrote about birders "chasing a bird," which means going out of our way to see a rare or unusual bird. I wrote that chasing a rar...