David is a retired Environmental Scientist with a passion for wildlife photography and travel. He has lived in Shasta County for the last 38 years with his wife Becky. If the light is at all ...

Still, every bird feels like a prize when you finally catch sight of one. I’ll never forget the first warbler I ever saw, a Hooded Warbler, back in 2007, when I had just started birding. (See the ...

A rather steady late spring period carried more than a faint whiff of end-of-season vibes before the mega alert sounded on Sunday, just as June began: an Eyebrowed Thrush in Shetland. The bird, found ...

The Sylvia warblers are birds of scrub and are perhaps the most visible of the warbler groups, at least in Britain. More robust than the other warbler groups they feed to a greater extent on fruit, ...

Join host Mike “Sleeves” Sliwa as he sits down with Kelsea Thompson, Tournament Director of PickleCon 2025, for an inspiring conversation about passion, pickleball, and one of the sport’s most ...

Red-backed Shrike was effectively lost as a breeding species in the 1990s, following a longer period of decline. It is now a scarce visitor, most often reported during May to June and August to ...

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