"Our ability to perceive quality in nature begins, as in art, with the pretty.  It expands through successive stages of beautiful to ...

"The cranes were spectacular--thousands and thousands of them, on the shore, on distant sandbars, in flight behind me and in front of m...

Spring begins silently, in unnoticed ways. While we humans are still shivering and wishing for more sunshine, many bird species have been bu...

When a juvenile bald eagle leaves the nest, it is a mostly dark bird with variable amounts of white mottling that is sometimes localized in ...

How do we know its spring? For many it’s when the snow melts, when we can shed our coats or when the first blooms appear. But this week I...