One of my favorite things to do during the Christmas Bird Count is to look for robins. That’s right, the humble American robin, a bird of neighborhoods and our most urban of environments and one often ...

As an old European Christmas story goes, on the cold night when Jesus was born in a Bethlehem stable, Mary cried out that the embers in the stable’s campfire were burning out. Her cries awakened a ...

Hushed, they waited, all ears and eyes, binoculars clutched to their chests. The trees rose around them, columns bearing the weight of the snow and sky. Gusts of wind shivered powder down onto their ...