It’s March, and the birds are a mix of winter and summer. Sweetwater this morning still hosted goodly numbers of Northern Shovelers and Gadwall among the ducks, but Yellow and Lucy’s Warblers joined the Common Yellowthroats and Yellow-rumped Warblers in the leafy willows and cottonwoods. And many of the residents are already busy at the [...]

I’d met Jan and Chuck at a Catalina birdwalk, and we decided that we would do a birding day when their daughter, Julie, came to visit. Today was the day, and we did it up right, with an early start here in Tucson and a delightful finish in cool Madera Canyon.
Our first stop was the [...]

Florida seems to be where it’s at lately. A White Wagtail was found this morning in Moon Lake Park, Pasco County. If memory serves, this will be that species’ first occurrence in the state, though one was seen in South Carolina in April 1998 (and then of course there was that Mississippi Citrine sometime in [...]

Coming soon to a mailbox near you, the new Winging It is in the hands of fate and the printers. The cover story is an exciting, and reassuring, update on birding in southern Louisiana after Hurricane Rita, and should be of special interest to those you attending the ABA Convention in Lafayette next month (and [...]

We got to see Pale-billed Woodpeckers at a couple of sites in February; this fine individual was dismantling a tree right behind the Jungle Lodge at Tikal, where it drew, deservedly so, the attention of birders and non-birders alike.
For birders from the north, seeing this species or its congeners in the tropics is always bittersweet. [...]