Yesterday we birded in sight of one of the world's largest oil refineries. That's Texas! More details about the trip later. Photo ...

A Yellow-Billed Cuckoo gets his caterpillar. A Reddish Egret catches a fish Two Rose-Breasted Grosbeaks eat mulberries. A Roseate Spoonbill ...

Three owlets at Anahuac National Wildlife Refuge. Mamma Barn Owl was away from the nest. More Birds At the NWR Green Heron on a wire   ...

A Red-Cockaded Woodpecker. A new species — or “lifer” — for us.   Five of the participants on our birding tour this morning. There are seven...

“Simone Biles: Taste of Gold” in the Houston Airport this afternoon.   “Greetings from Houston” a mural by Daniel Anguilu and Frank Nathen, ...

A bluebird in the Arboretum (Len’s photo) A Ride through the Countryside Near Manchester, Michigan One day this week, when the sun was shini...

Tales from the Fifth Extinction: Happening Now Lost Wonders  by Tom Lathan  is a very depressing book. Not only is it deeply saddening to he...

 Snow! Siglufjördur, an isolated town in the extreme north of Iceland. An avalanche on the only road into town can cut it off almost entirel...

  Cooking for Passover, 1478 A full-scale Seder meal for Passover includes four cups of wine, hard-boiled eggs, matzos, matzoball soup, gefi...