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An aside over at PEEPS, the blog admirably maintained by Bill Maynard, reminds me that the Internet Bird Collection is up to something like 55% of the world’s bird species–videos, photos, and sounds. And it’s a lot cheaper than HBW, which I’m so fortunate to have in my office here at WINGS.

Alison and I were fortunate enough to spend the week after this year’s British Bird Fair in Pembrokeshire, right on the coast of the Irish Sea. We stayed in Penparc, halfway between Fishguard and St. David’s, and spent our time walking a tiny fraction of the 186 miles of coastal path, birding, and enjoying the [...]

We truly do have two springs here in southeast Arizona, that first, often subtle one in February and March, and then this lavish, riotous, out-of-control bursting that follows the monsoon rains, so generous this year.

There’s a lesson in this abundance, as there is in most things. All of our scrabbling and tending and fretful watering [...]

Late monsoon is the season for invertebrates in the desert: enameled lubber grasshoppers, flying ants, transparent damselflies, and all sorts of more sinister wonders, too.

We have bark scorpions in the house all year ’round, but only in late summer do we start to feel that we’re fighting a losing battle, with multiple individuals most days. [...]

I’ve just put a few photos from the British Bird Fair up at The Wingbeat–if you’ve never been, you’ve got to go!