I biked along Sax Zim Bog on Highway 7 in 2005 during a 500 mile four day adventure race with son Zack and two buddies, but didn’t start making winter trips to the bog in search of owls until about six years ago. Since then I’ve made three trips a year and have found...

Hiking along the Temperance River on the North Shore in early November, I was looking for birds. Our list that weekend was miserably low. A yellowish-streaky bird with white wing bars flitted past me and landed in a nearby spruce. At last, I thought. A Goldfinch. But...