I’ve had many people ask me, “Why are there so few birds at my feeder this winter?” The short answer is, “I don’t know.” I don’t have many b...

An apology ... sort of. Every so often someone will excitedly call me or e-mail me: “Did you see the swans!?” I can seldom respond with any ...

I attended a Short-eared Owl show. I was told that the show began in the early morning, but I did not join the show until two in the afterno...

Note: This was a post with Short-eared Owl photos. I've remove the photos from this post so they can be used with column on 2/9. Here ar...

I was on a narrow road near Niles Pond on East Point in Gloucester, Massachusetts. I had just gotten in the car when a walker stopped by the...

Coming out of Brattleboro on a faux Spring day last week, just pass the Retreat Meadows I saw something white and brown in a tree close to t...

Slaty-backed Gull, one of three in Gloucester, Massachusetts. This one on Niles Pond. Photographed on January 17. Also, many Iceland Gulls, ...

Every issue of Audubon, the magazine of the National Audubon Society, has a section of “Field Notes” - brief items about birds, wildlife, an...

The last day of the old year. I am sitting by the kitchen window watching the snow fall. Later this morning I will go outside and clear the ...

There was more snow on the ground than I can remember in my eleven years of doing the Brattleboro Area Christmas Bird Count (CBC). And it wa...