Tales of the Nishiki

Spring is here and American Woodcock are being observed in Niagara. Even before the Spring Equinox, I was receiving eBird alerts for the sho...

It has been six years. Six long years since Jean and I travelled south of the continental United States to find birds. We were due. So to c...

 On Monday August 15, Jean and I received some e-mail notifications of a rare sighting in Niagara. Josh Vandermeulen and his fiancée Lau...

In my last post , I had mentioned that the Blue-Crowned Lesson's Motmot was lifer #435 for Jean and I. I soon became dismayed upon th...

    The original plan was to post tales from my 2013 Belize Trip in some reasonable order. First to last would have worked very...

It was the Peninsula Field Naturalists nature club annual picnic on Saturday June 25 and I was not expecting any first of the year birds as ...

We all have our own rules when keeping lists of the birds we see and for our life list, both Jean and I have to see the bird to add the tick...