After two months in Philadelphia, we finally got a good day for driving to, and birding, some of the prime nearby place. We made an early mo...

Red-winged Blackbird males begin to return before winter has loosened its grip “Conk-a-reeeee!” I sit in my study, waiting yet anoth...

In the dark, morning light of Muir Woods, the Pacific Wren (split a few years ago from Winter Wren) presented itself so suddenly that I di...

I returned on a bright clear afternoon to Pretzel Park in the Manayunk section of Philadelphia where a pair of Peregrine Falcons are prepar...

Sparrows, those little brown birds that drive so many casual bird watchers crazy, are nevertheless one of my bird favorite families, and Cal...

I love songbirds, and the challenge of finding them and photographing them, but there are few of them to be found in the East during winter....