Frank, a good friend from Princeton, arrived yesterday for a little birding before joining our group for Alamos this coming week; his son Nick came in from California, too, and they were kind enough to invite me along for some birding today. We went out west, to the sewage beds at Avra Valley and then […]

Jarmo, visiting from Finland, and I went to a couple of spots northwest of Tucson today, basically just sniffing around to see what we might find. The Marana Pecan Grove was being patrolled by a Black Vulture, a species I don’t often run into right there; the two Turkey Vultures with it were flirting with […]

We sat a twelve-hour day this year at Catalina State Park, and ended up with a total of 50 species, ten more than I had predicted. Our best species was certainly the first-winter Eastern Phoebe that landed in a mesquite above our heads: my first this fall in Arizona, and probably a first record for […]