What I planned for my opening paragraph — the lovely foggy morning on Tuesday — was derailed by my return trip from Aquinnah that afternoon.
Carl Linnaeus was a legend in his own mind.
The northward migration that started in January and February is almost over. We will get a few more migrants, but now most birds have settled into...
The Summer Moon, the full moon of June, takes place on Wednesday. The Moon is moving through one of the southernmost zodiacal constellations Scorpius...
Migrating shorebirds, seabirds, insect-eaters and sparrows arrive as June also arrives.
Ralph Waldo Emerson recognized that “to be yourself in a world that is constantly trying to make you something else is the greatest accomplishment.”
We have all heard it — the solid thump of a bird hitting a window. And photos of lots of dead birds — victims of hitting a window near skyscrapers —...