Quizzes

Neither question very hard, but each another excuse to show off the winter waterfowl diversity in downtown Tucson!
I count 7 species here. You?

And now, how many species are represented in the series of photos below?

Enough ducks! Back to some real birding.

Never have I been so close to Northern Pintails as in Tucson’s Reid Park. Mid-February–just about the time the first birds are arriving on their Great Plains staging grounds–seems to be the best season for them, and drakes and a few hens can show up on the smallest, most urban ponds, where they quickly adopt […]

Ideas? The photo was taken in southeast Arizona last week.

The sharp-eyed will have noticed the alternate-plumaged Black Tern in one of the images from my last ‘post’; there were two there, perching on the mud like little skimmers and skimming the water like giant moths. And they were joined by what counts in southeast Arizona as a gull flock: a single Franklin’s Gull and […]

Just what is the relationship between birding and bird photography? I know people who won’t ‘count’ a bird unless they’ve got a good image of it, and I know, alas, many people who leave the identifying of their photos to the sometimes dubious expertise offered by one or another of the internet “forums.”
I’ve ranted before about […]