Today's Photo - Yellow-crowned Night Heron...

Digiscoped Yellow-crowned Night Heron.

Today's Photo - Great Oak Dagger Moth...

I believe this to be Acronicta lobeliae - Greater Oak Dagger Moth

Wordless Wednesday...

Today's Photo - Female Calico Pennant...

I think this is a Female Calico Pennant.  The males show red in the body markings.

Juvenile Common Tern...

Looking for Phalaropes and finding a Sandwich Tern...

2 out of 3 Wilson's Phalaropes on the flats at Mecox LI. On June 9th, Heydi Lopes and I decided to make a run out to Mecox LI to get in...

Today's Photo - Royal Terns

Curlew Sandpiper on Long Island...

Today's guest post was written by Michael McBrien , the founder of the Curlew Sandpiper on June 14th, at Cupsogue Long Island .  Michae...

Perils of nature...

Curve-Lined Argyria (Vaxi auratella) Moth taken out by a Robber Fly. Curve-Lined Argyria (Vaxi auratella) Moth taken out by a Robber Fly...

Wordless Wednesday...

Featured Shorebird - White-rumped Sandpiper...

With all the buzz about warblers during the spring migration it is easy to forget that there are many other groups of birds that also migrat...

Today's Photo - Barred Owl...

Wordless Wednesday - Birds of Costa Rica...

Resplendent Quetzal Resplendent Quetzal Resplendent Quetzal Resplendent Quetzal

Good Tern of Events...

Move along folks, nothing to see in the fog. Heydi Lopes and I were in Delaware on May 27th, chasing a breeding plumage Sabine’s Gull (Xem...