Just be glad it’s not a scratch-and-sniff blog.
Darlene and I drove the flats of the lower Santa Cruz this rainy day looking for raptors, sparrows, and shorebirds. A quick turn around the Teton Road feedlot showed us the breathtaking scene excerpted above: tens of thousands of Yellow-headed Blackbirds paving the muddy ground, keeping the cattle company.

If I […]

In all of Arizona, there is perhaps no more dramatic landscape, and no landscape more difficult to photograph, than the San Rafael grasslands. You come out of the top of Harshaw Canyon, and there it is beneath you, tall grass studded with oaks; the mental music starts up, and you fully expect a young Linda […]

Birders around the world know Madera Canyon as one of the best birding sites in Arizona and in North America. Explosive development around Green Valley has greatly changed the approach to the canyon, as recent visitors can attest; now, however, a new housing development threatens the canyon itself.
 
George West, for the Friends of Madera […]

The new Winging It went to the printer last week, and should be in members’ mailboxes and hands shortly. It’s an exciting issue, with a particularly notable article on Black Swifts in California and Washington. Got your attention?
The issue also includes pieces on birding India, Montana, Taiwan, and South Africa. Pete Dunne provides tips on […]