This is one of the male Montezuma Quail Linda, Alan, and I saw on Monday along Harshaw Creek.

Like the other birds in his covey, this one displayed a touching degree of confidence in the capacity of a single strand of dried grass to conceal him from view.

Up too late working on my taxes, I’ve overlapped with a Western Screech-Owl singing in the front yard. The owl’s voice is a great deal sweeter than mine after these many hours of sorting and stacking and adding and multiplying.

This picture was taken in early October last year, when we still had our old owl […]

Another beautiful day out and about in southeast Arizona with Linda and Alan. Birding was actually a bit slender, but we ended the day with Alan attaining an impressive milestone: a Cassin’s Vireo at the world-famous Patagonia Picnic Table was his world bird #1,900. I was delighted to be there for it!
The day’s highlight had […]

The raptor wonderland along the lower Santa Cruz River is usually winding down by late February, and this year is no exception; in a full morning along the river between Marana and Red Rock, Lori and I found hawk numbers relatively low. But the quality was there.
Our two Ferruginous Hawks included one stunning black bird […]

I met Linda and Alan in downtown Tucson on a cold, almost raw morning, and we headed south, looking for “Mexican” specialties between Nogales and Arivaca. The wind and the chill kept bird numbers low all day, but when we did run across a pocket of activity here and there, it was exciting indeed–as it […]