What a beautiful spring day in Central Park to go bird watching! I couldn't stay inside knowing all those migrating birds have been winging their way to New York City. So late afternoon I stopped working and raced up there for a couple of hours of hanging out with birds. Warblers are arriving by the truckload -- Yellow-rumped, Black and White, Blue-winged (which I regret I did not see), Veery, vireos, Hermit Thrushes, plus Ruby-crowned Kinglets, Towhees, and more White-th

I can’t recommend highly enough the fabulous exhibit at the American Museum of Natural History, “Dinosaurs Among Us”. It’s basically the evolution of birds from their dinosaur ancestors, but it serves as a comprehensive lesson on evolution itself and shows us the tools – technological and intellectual -- that scientists use to understand the why’s and how’s of this amazing transformation. In the show, you’ll see exhibits on feathers and other physiological features like eggs