What, already?! It seemed way too soon to leave this morning, but at least Mike and Janet accompanied us as far as Navojoa, where we stopped along the Rio Mayo to look for a few species we hadn’t found around Alamos and Yavaros.
Construction on the bridge made it impossible to get down to the river [...]

It will be hard for many of you to believe that I’ve gone so long without mentioning Rufous-winged Sparrows: they accompanied us all the way from Terrenate to Alamos, sometimes audible and visible on the very edges of the highway when we paused, and essentially unmissable here around the Rancho Acosta, where to the appreciative [...]

I think we’ve decided that the “theme” of this trip is abundance: abundant laughter, abundant food, and of course abundant birds. We’ve been seeing some new birds, some rare birds, some fascinating birds, but what has struck all of us most is just how many of some species we’ve encountered. It was particularly impressive this afternoon [...]

A few days in Alamos always sounds like a great idea, until, that is, we get there and discover just how “few” a few days always turns out to be!
It was a long drive yesterday, nicely punctuated by the migration spectacular at Terrenate and an afternoon stop on the causeway at Empalme, where we were [...]

A cold, dark drive south from Tucson, with fresh snow visible on the Mexican “sky islands” as the sun rose. But by the time we made it to Imuris and downriver to the village of Terrenate, the sun was out and the world alive, and our first stop, at the river ford between Terrenate and [...]