It was a little like the last day of summer: the final field trip (already!!) with my SaddleBrooke group. There’s just something about getting to know a new bunch of birders that makes time go way too fast–both the last five months and the last seven hours.
Incipient nostalgia notwithstanding, we had a lot of fun and [...]

There are days so full of wonders that it’s hard to figure out what to write about!
This morning, Scott and I headed to the Patagonia area, stopping first at Kino Springs. There have been recent mutterings online about “improvements” there, and sure enough, there has been much mowing and clearing of brush around the ponds, [...]

Eighty degrees, bright and calm: so what should Scott and Darlene want to go looking for today? Why, Rough-legged Hawk, of course!
We found no fuzzy-footed buteos in the area where Cliff had had one yesterday afternoon, but the Marana Pecan Grove did harbor a fine White-tailed Kite, and a second bird was hunting the river’s [...]

Linda, Elizabeth, and I undertook the journey to Maricopa County yesterday, where we burned up target bird after target bird. And “burned up” is an apt description of not just our success but the conditions in which we achieved it: it was the first truly warm day of the spring, temperatures in the 80s and [...]

Warning: Stay out of Alison’s garden, or this could be you!!