Birding in America: Lake Towhee County Park, Pennsylvania

Easy trails, lush woodland, and an accessible lake offer excellent birding in eastern Pennsylvania.   Lake Towhee County Park is a 222-hectare (549-acre) rural park abutting the quiet village of Appl...

7 Ways to Enrich Your Life Through Birding

Are you looking for ways to enrich your life? Try birding! Identifying and observing birds offers a mental challenge, physical activity, sensory stimulation, social interaction, nature/spiritual conne...

Potter Marsh, Alaska

Mild darkness bathes northern Nova Scotia this evening, obscuring the ground mist that settled over meadows and forest and Matheson Brrok as I returned home from walking rural roads in late afternoon....

Hiking Flattop Peak, Alaska

On the last day of Vilis’s and my five-day visit to Alaska in May, we rented a car and drove east through Anchorage’s sprawling suburbs to Chugach State Park (saw a moose browsing on shrub...