Bird Counts

I can’t remember (but could probably find out) whether my first Christmas Count was in 1977 or 1978, but with the unbridled enthusiasm of youth (now, where did I put that youth of mine?) I went for years doing 3, 4, 5 CBC’s a season. For some reason, the Count just doesn’t appeal to me [...]

We sat a twelve-hour day this year at Catalina State Park, and ended up with a total of 50 species, ten more than I had predicted. Our best species was certainly the first-winter Eastern Phoebe that landed in a mesquite above our heads: my first this fall in Arizona, and probably a first record for [...]