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Spring weather arrives one day, and seems to leave the next. But eventually as April arrives, the “days get longer” and the flowers, birds, and even the insects are everywhere. About the time coltsfoo...

The nighttime hours of April 14 brought rain and a thunderstorm, but to me it also meant a frontal passage. It seems, that just overnight, many new bird species arrived in our region. I ventured to ...

“Hey Barry, you haven’t visited for a while so why don’t you make the drive out here and as a bonus, we can catch the solar eclipse.” My sister Jamie and her husband live about 30 minutes north of Pit...

In the next four or five weeks, my Carbon County bird list will swell from 60 to about 150 or more birds. The tropics have held our warblers, tanagers, flycatchers, etc., through winter and they are o...

It’s January, we’re snug and warm in our homes, mostly oblivious to what’s happening outside in the cold Times News region. Sure, I just complained about my little changing bird list, but there really...

January should only have about 20 days, not 31. I find it to be my gloomiest month. Its nasty biting winds, cold days, even colder nights, and shorter daylight hours all drop January lower on my most ...

When I was between 10 and 13 years of age, Dad fashioned a 6-foot butterfly net for me from mom’s old window sheers. My East Weissport neighbors probably thought I was catching butterflies in their ya...

I try to never go anywhere without my camera and binoculars. If I plan a longer trek for a mile or two, my rucksack goes across my shoulder to hold those items, along with a field guide or two, and ev...

In my opinion, there is something special about autumn. First, the leaves offer a wonderful palette of colors. And, the disappearance of most of the nuisance insects is certainly a plus to me. Not bei...

The barn swallows departed for South America about Aug. 20. It’s no wonder, they have a very long migration to make it to Argentina. Many of the warblers that bred in the Northeast and Canada started ...