Rants

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 [...]

How could anyone not love White-winged Doves?

Their physical beauty is beyond dispute, with that deep red eye, blue facial skin, and flashy white wing- and tail-patterns. And the voice: with their careful attention to syncopation and the constant variation of their melodies, white-wings are probably the most musical of all Sonoran desert birds.
Sure, they gobble [...]

This from an online piece about effective writing:
“Avoid repetition and overuse of grammar….”
I’ll try to remember that.

if I started a Vi*gra blog, would I get 500 pieces of birding spam a day?

The more than 90 million feral housecats in this country wreak havoc on wildlife wherever they occur; the problem is becoming increasingly acute at Arizona sites such as the Gilbert Water Ranch, where the soft-hearted soft-headed dump kittens in horrific numbers.
Tucson Audubon has come up with some ingenious ways to raise public awareness of this [...]