I am nothing if not a considerate spouse. Alison had been home nearly 13 hours before I even suggested heading to a sewage pond.
Alison is nothing if not an indulgent spouse.
We arrived at the Benson sewage ponds at 1:00, to find Denis and Kt willing the bird not to fly. And it worked: an adult […]

It wasn’t meant to be a quiz, but this is the only photo I managed to get this afternoon of the Worm-eating Warbler currently in residence along the Santa Cruz River at Tubac. A state bird for me, and almost certainly my last yearbird for 2006. 
Following her very pleasant Audubon walk on the David Yetman […]

Birding Catalina this morning was a lot like wandering through a Chinese scroll.

Fog in the lowlands, snow on the mountains, and an uncharacteristic chill in the air!

But as always, there were birds to be seen. A Western Scrub-Jay greeted me as I pulled in to the park. An excellent thrush show included a flock of […]

 
One could argue that birding in the western hemisphere started on Hispaniola, with the colorful birds captured by Columbus’s men as trophies of their voyage. Today, more than five centuries later, this Caribbean island and the two nations that share it, Haiti and the Dominican Republic, are the subject of renewed interest in the birding […]

Our winter rains did in fact start yesterday evening, but at elevations only slightly higher than ours here in Tucson, the precipitation turned quickly to snow. Darlene and I drove through steady snow to Benson this morning, with the desert ground white around us. If you think Vermilion Flycatchers are beautiful, you should see them […]