Every season has its splendors, but to say that any moment exceeds the height of spring requires a temporary forgetting. The trees have spread their leaves, the air rings with song and the sky is no ...

Summer is swallow season. Spring migration can in some ways seem like a less-dramatic affair than California’s fall migration of ducks and shorebirds, with a relatively subtle arrival of songbirds, ...

When going for walks in late July, much of the route is spent looking at summer wildflowers; many still in bloom while others have gone to seed. New ones are seen each day. In the woods, more moisture ...

Recently, I had the pleasure of going birding at Brazos Bend State Park with friends. One of our first sightings of the day was a flock of what had to be at least 500 tree swallows congregating on a ...

A common sight at Faville Grove throughout the summer are the foraging flocks of Tree Swallows maneuvering above ponds, wetlands, and prairies to catch the aerial insects that comprise much of their ...

Several times in the last few weeks I have responded to a request for help identifying a “big swarm of birds.” They were swirling, swooping and diving over the sea oats on Tybee, above a lagoon on ...