The birdsong in the open lot behind my apartment has diversified these past couple of weeks. But for months before, it was a colony of House Sparrows dominating the airwaves. …
Winged Words

The little, black-capped chickadee is one of the hardy birds that has just weathered the winter with us. Its …
Promised Land

An end-to-end walk in Bishop Woods takes you from New Haven to East Haven. First you head eastward from the Bishop Woods School parking lot, then you take a 90-degree midway turn to the north. It’s easy to stay on …
Flight Club

A photo essay.
The first rule of Flight Club is: You do not talk about Flight Club. Not in English, anyway. …
Flight Club

The first rule of Flight Club is: You do not talk about Flight Club. Not in English, anyway.
Chirps, caws, trills and squawks, however, are totally acceptable. …
Muck and Admire

This year’s was an especially tough winter, chilling and perilous and exhausting. But somehow its cruelest feature is that, after enduring so much extra hardship, our prize is no different than usual: a drab, barren…