Here are a few more photos from the pelagic trip off the Massachusetts coast & Plum Island earlier this week. Greater Shearwater ... Co...

Monday I did a Bird/Whale Watch from Newburyport. Trip went out about 20 miles. In addition to the whales, this trip also "pursued...

The last week and a half was expected to be busy with more family and grandkids visiting, but unexpected things made it even busier. However...

Earlier this week, I posted on my blog a series of pictures of a Herring Gull bathing. It was a mature adult bird. It stepped into a pool, d...

Following is a series of photos I took in late June on Schoodic Point in Maine. Thoughts about the gull will form this week's Reformer c...

A couple of years ago when doing the Vermont Breeding Bird Atlas field work, I recorded Common Loon as observed and a potential breeding spe...

When I lived in western Pennsylvania twenty-five years ago, there were a number local idioms and grammatical quirks which I had to get used ...

We were in Cap May for a family memorial over the weekend. The kids and grandkids were all there, so evening and Sunday morning were at the ...