The Huachucas are good for butterflies too, and I was reminded yesterday morning of an episode from many years ago when we were staying up at the high cabins at Beatty’s B&B.
We’d gone up the canyon for an early-morning walk, and on the way down ran into a small gang of binocular toters; we paused and [...]

A really fine couple of days with the SaddleBrooke hummingbird workshop. There was no audible snoring during my lecture on Thursday, and yesterday we had a great time at Tom Beatty’s, with no fewer than 9 hummingbird species at the central viewing area.

In addition to Anna’s Hummingbirds, we also enjoyed great views of Violet-crowned, Broad-billed, [...]

We all have “nemesis birds,” species we have longed to see and never managed to run into in the field. I suspect that many of us have “nemesis mammals,” too, creatures that have caught our eye and imagination in the books but have yet to cross our path.
Note that I don’t include such stonkers as [...]

You may quibble with her choice of husbands, but there’s no questioning her taste in Arizona canyons: Scheelite has always been high on Alison’s list of favorites, and it was the one spot she really wanted to visit on this trip home. So off we set yesterday morning.
The Fort Huachuca grasslands are alive right now [...]

Home from the Southwest Wings festival, held this year in cool and beautiful Sierra Vista. And I do mean cool: it was precisely 30 degrees warmer on my arrival in Tucson yesterday afternoon than it had been when I stepped into the car two hours earlier!
As at any festival, the best part was the people, [...]