Can’t believe we missed it…. co-birder Darlene and I decided to combine a visit to Denis and Katy, Tucsonans in temporary exile in New Braunfels, with a speed-of-light trip to the Lower Rio Grande in Texas. We stopped to pick Denis up and headed to Hornsby Bend to look for the Fork-tailed Flycatcher that has [...]

I don’t have strong feelings about cars, as long as they run. Ours was due for an oil change this morning, and rather than put it off any longer, I took it up to the corner where they usually do our work. Turned out it needed a few other little things, so I grabbed my [...]

A funny morning, spent pretending to do exactly those things I wanted to do. Alona, who runs the Tucson Hummingbird Project, and Tom, a well-known photographer and videographer, came over to interview me and to film some of the birds in our yard. My Western Screech-Owl played hide-and-seek the entire time of course, and it’s [...]

We’ve been having a blast the last couple of days birding with Dave and Kitty, a couple of our favorite people. Dave is the captain of our World Series of Birding team, the Mad Harriers, and he and Kitty and Alison and I hadn’t been birding all together for a long time, so it’s been [...]