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The Bahamas 2012: Days One and Two
Traffic is heavy in Nassau, but I was still surprised when the brakes hit the floor and the sweetly polite young woman in charge of my first hours in The Bahamas uttered what I thought was a mild...
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BHL to the Rescue, Again
In late August of 2013, I’ll be leading a short WINGS tour to some of the sites Alexander Wilson — the father of American ornithology — birded in Pennsylvania and New Jersey; on the 200th anniversary...
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Marking the Wilson Bicentennial
Join my new WINGS tour to Philadelphia, Palmyra, and Cape May, in celebration of the 200th anniversary of the death of Alexander Wilson. It should be a fantastic weekend! August 22-25, 2013 This year...
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Nebraska: March 2013
Every spring is different, but this one was more different than most. We’d pushed our March WINGS tour to Nebraska’s Platte River back a week to the end of the month, but the first few days of our...
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Musty Closets?
P. Dalous, Wikimedia Commons Of all the “fancy five,” it’s the Common Kingfisher that sometimes gives us the hardest time in Provence. It’s not especially scarce, but this incredibly colorful bird is...
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Not the Same Old Magpie
The magpies with black bills have been through some taxonomic ups and downs over the years, but the current understanding of the AOU and other authorities is that the birds of North America, the...
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Nebraska With WINGS
If variety is the spice of life, then the Great Plains in spring is the habanero chili of birding. In the short week my congenial WINGS group spent in Nebraska, we watched Tufted Titmice and...
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The Chickens Dance
They’re irresistibly photogenic, and this time around, last week in Nebraska, I happened to recall that my little point-and-shoot camera-for-dummies takes video, too. Ladies and gentlemen, the Greater...
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A Griffon in France
Yesterday morning’s visit to the Pont du Gard was a good one: we missed the one “easy” target we’ve always got before — the charming little yellow-patched Rock Sparrow — but we made up for it. White...
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Di Provenza, il mar, il suol: and the Uccelli, too
The most striking thing about Provence is the ubiquity of the past. Here an ancient farmhouse, there a medieval castle, and everywhere the remnants of imperial Rome, from great arenas and amphitheaters...
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