Not too long ago, while I was photographing a great egret from Goose Island, I noticed a canoe heading our way. I thought the egret would fly away when it saw the approaching canoe, but to my surprise ...

There's a familiar scene in “The Wizard of Oz,” where Dorothy and her pals proceed down the yellow brick road chanting, “Lions and tigers and bears, oh my!” Birding might have a similar line. This ...

“That blasted crane is fishing in my pond again,” I heard my father say. I have corrected him many times, but he still refers to the great blue heron as some kind of crane. Many wildlife viewers do ...

I was very fortunate to grow up on a good-sized muddy lake not far from where I'm sitting. There, I could watch muskrats, catch sunfish, and observe a particular great blue heron. Every spring we ...

Fireflies flicker on and off at Sawhill Ponds (look along the railway tracks on the south side) and Gunbarrel’s Twin Lakes. This summer’s drought conditions may limit the number of visible flashers.

Something is spooking the egrets and herons. The lanky white egrets and the bluish-gray herons launch in unison from their twig nests, on the top branches of towering redwood trees overlooking Bolinas ...

“The ultimate value in these marshes is wildness, and the crane is wildness incarnate. But all conservation of wildness is self-defeating, for to cherish we must see ... and when enough have seen, ...

A friend and I stopped by Hendrickson Marsh northeast of Collins a few weeks ago to see what birds might be present. We had only a small pair of pocket binoculars, but even those were enough to see ...

I recently took a short walk down my backyard hill to take my grandchildren fishing on one of the stone-arched bridges at Silver Lake. As we got across the road and I could see the first bridge ...

In the morning, as the sun tops the big trees on the far side of Baker’s Lake, Barbara Roth sits at a table in her Barrington home and looks out at the shimmering water. She has a clear view of the ...