holarctic birds

Among birders there’s something called “chasing a bird.” As I’ve written before, chasing a bird involves a birder learning of a rare or unusual bird —...

Our long winter nights are the perfect time for me to sort through thousands of images of people, places and wildlife that I’ve collected since gettin...

Allegany photographer Dan Jordan sent us his latest great bald eagle image this week — this one of a local pair together along the Allegheny River des...

If you know anything about Oswego, New York, you know that its winters can be brutal — even by Upstate New York standards. Located on the very shoreli...

The canoe drifted around a corner of tall reeds surprising a great blue heron only 20 yards away. With an annoyed, raspy “Rauck!,” the great bird spra...

In my last column I wrote about my excitement at locating three nesting prothonotary warblers at Magee Marsh in Ohio over the Memorial Day Weekend. Pa...

If one thing has changed about the way that I travel by car, it’s my degree of planning. Until quite recently, I’d identify my destination and the rou...