Carroll Tyson

On Tuesday evening, my Screech Owl Companion co-author Scott Weston were guests on “Bird Calls,” an NPR program out of Shreveport. Host Cliff Shackelford, Scott, and I could see one another on Zoom while we chatted. Above is a shot I grabbed

While I was researching The Real James Bond, one of my best days was when I interviewed the great Cuban ornithologist Orlando Garrido in Havana. Orlando and Bond had a mutual admiration society, and Bond tried to promote Orlando’s career

My latest column for The Record and other USA Today newspapers in New Jersey is about the bird prints of Carroll Tyson, often called the Audubon of Maine. A century ago, Tyson painted dozens of watercolors that ultimately became a

The Real James Bond has gotten some marvelous reviews and praise, and I thought it might be helpful to link to as many of them as possible in one spot — here. The Wall Street Journal called The Real James Bond “a

When I photographed a Hummingbird Clear-winged Moth on Bee Balm recently, I had forgotten the likely connection between the real James Bond and the insect. On most days, it was staring me right in the face. I own two fine-arts

  Recently, I wrote how James Bond’s uncle Carroll Tyson Jr., John James Audubon and Vincent Van Gogh all painted birds by posing birds that had been shot for that purpose. I thought it would be neat to post all