Evening grosbeaks are a favorite of mine. They have been virtually absent for the past 10 years or so but this year they have been seen regularly for...

Three species of mergansers visit the Vineyard at this time of the year. Two of them — the red-breasted and the hooded mergansers — are quite common...

A northern shrike was the most interesting sighting of the past week.

More late fall and winter residents have arrived this week, perhaps riding the blast of Arctic air we got on Thanksgiving and the day after. I can...

While many of us are thinking Thanksgiving season–it is hard to believe that this year’s celebration is already past.

Those gray, black and white tern-like birds that are flocking out in the Sound or in our coastal ponds are Bonaparte’s gulls.

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