SOUTH NEWFANE I love the New England coast, and in recent weeks I have had several occasions to wander sections of this coast, explore some of the inlets, and just watch as the tides breaks on the ...

Last time I started "Gulls 101" with a look at the smallest of our local gulls — the ring-billed gull. In this second installment of the course, I will discuss the herring gull, which is the most ...

Amateur photographer Don Shank was at the Conowingo Dam to snap shots of magnificent bald eagles, not drab white gulls. But when a gull in cerulean blue flapped by while he was warming himself in his ...

A point of avian trivia: Only one state eclipses Ohio in the number of gull species seen within its boundaries. It is California, which dwarfs Ohio in size and has 840 miles of Pacific coastline.

Don't miss the big stories. Like us on Facebook. Earlier this week, I posted on my blog a series of pictures of a herring gull bathing. It was a mature adult bird. It stepped into a pool, dunked its ...