Are hummingbirds really pugnacious? Many observers think so but I say they are not always feisty.

A snowbird is a northerner who choses to move to a warmer southern state in the winter.

The “damndemic” as I call the Covid-19 pandemic has created an incredible uptick in bird watching.

Vineyard bird watchers and authors of this column are scattered near and far this week.

My grandmother Emma Mayhew Whiting set me, at age seven, on a path which I still follow today: birding, bird watching, twitching or studying ornithology.

It is 6 a.m. There isn’t a breath of air. The sun is barely peeking over the wood line at edge of the field.