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Criminy, thunder! It sounds like the winter rains are about to begin in earnest: gentle, lasting drizzles very unlike the violence of the late-summer monsoon, but no less welcome.
Elizabeth and I had a sense of the change in the weather this afternoon, with humidity and dust heavy in the air at Willcox. The sudden wind [...]
Sometimes the “funny captions” game just isn’t much of a challenge.
Lang Elliott is among the best and best-known recordists of birdsong in North America. His new book, The Songs of Wild Birds, is a combination of words, images, and often spectacular sounds that will delight and intrigue birders and non-birders alike.
Elliott’s selection of 50 species reveals a distinct eastern bias (could a western volume be in [...]
No luck with the recent Worm-eating or Black-and-white Warblers at Tubac, but a beautiful Christmas morning walk produced some birds all the same.
Greater Pewee is a very scarce winterer in southeast Arizona, but this one was in a nice flock of Bridled Titmice, Hutton’s Vireos, Ruby-crowned Kinglets, White-breasted Nuthatches, Audubon’s and Orange-crowned Warblers, and Chipping [...]
