Several Yanks competed in the 2004 Big Sit in Northern England.Credit: Illustration by Chris Archer. By Jim Wright Special to

Pat Price (a.k.a. Patty Creighton when she grew up in Allendale) sent me the following poem in 2016. I was

  I only knew George Takayama through Stiles Thomas, but I always appreciated his distinctive style. Stiles suggested I use

As you likely know, Allendale's Stiles Thomas was a pioneer in studying hawk migration and establishing hawk watches in our

Sorry for all these Stiles Thomas posts, but he was a dear friend and mentor. This might be the last

Thanks to the Fyke Nature Association's Tom Mitchell, we now have a webpage filled with so many wonderful memories of

The other night, when my wife Patty and I got word that our dear friend Stiles Thomas was in failing

At a Fyke Nature Assoc. meeting 10 years ago, Marsh Warden Stiles Thomas ended his captivating talk and bird-carving exhibition

Last week I asked: What is it? Who carved it? Where can you see this carving? And, a toughie —

In case you missed my Zoom talk on the Red-shouldered Hawks of Allendale and would like to view it, here