Birdwatching can be addictive. Seeing a dazzling display of color can create a high that lifts your spirits.

Mr. Ben David paid a visit to the Gazette Tuesday with his newest charge, a three-week-old great horned owlet that fell out of a nest near the Blue Hills reservation in Quincy.

Now that it is April, we may have seen the last of winter weather (let’s hope), and songbirds are beginning to arrive.

Swans are symbols of love and fidelity, and are famously known to mate with one partner for life.

Birding is exciting, as Lanny McDowell discussed in last week’s column.

A lot of what birding is about does not need to be put into words. But here we are.