During the school year, I am trapped inside during the most productive birding hours of the day. As the days get shorter and shorter, there is less of a chance for me to do any birding at all.

Look for a flash of white along coasts and shorelines to locate a great egret. Long-legged like a heron, the great egret’s all-white feathers and its yellow bill tend to make it an easy spot in its ...

The great egret had returned on a late July morning to hunt in the shallow pond that borders our backyard. This is the second time in 22 years that we have seen that species here, other than an ...

When you see a large white form in the distant group of dead trees on the far side of our wetland, you instantly become alert. In the more traveled parts of our busy world, it could be a plastic ...