North America’ s first Yellow-browed Bunting was photographed today at Gambell. What a fall it’s been out there for Paul Lehman and companions!

They’re common enough down in Pima Wash, a scant 1/8 mile from the house, but Abert’s Towhees don’t often grace us with their presence here in the yard.

This red-eyed beauty obviously had a hankering for some sunflower seeds, as it has spent the entire day lurking under the heavy-laden hackberry, venturing forth every once in [...]

Day III, and a great one. I birded the area around Antisana volcano with Marcelo and The Jacobins. Most of the day was cool and dry, with just a little rain as we were turning around to go back to Quito. And lifebird after lifebird!
Nearly all the specialties of the area turned up for us, [...]

On the way back from Papallacte to Quito, we stopped for lunch at Guango Lodge, one of those hummingbird paradises you run across everywhere in the Andes. Lunch, I’m afraid, was neglected in favor of the feeders, which were mobbed. It was here that we saw our first Speckled Hummingbirds and Mountain Velvetbreasts of the [...]

Day II of the ABA Conference in Ecuador found me birding with The Tanagers under the truly expert leadership of Marcelo and Jarol. And it found me shivering like I hadn’t shivered for years, on the snowy paramo of Papallacta.

We made several stops on our way up to this magical tundra, pausing for such great [...]