Birds

Walking up the ramp, from the docks here at Marina Palmira, on my way to the adjacent sidewalk that border…

Twenty-seventeen was an amazing year for me in terms of seeing birds. I’ll do a full rundown of the year…

See that title? I originally typed “10 Best Birds of 2018.” Which, I think, says something about birding–no matter how…

As tree crowns grow thinner, Autumn becomes the true woodpecker season. September in the Balkans started with the usual unruly…

I have had to wait a long time to write this post. Red Warblers, Cardellina rubra, are easy enough to…

It’s Christmas Bird Count season, and if you know Christmas Bird Counts you have probably heard the tale of how…

Last week I wrote about the interesting hunting habits of our local Harris’s Hawks. Today I will cover another one…

For as long as I have been living here in Mexico, I have truly enjoyed watching the Harris’s Hawks antics….

A miserable little pile of secrets… no wait, that’s something else. But rails are commonly paired with the adjective “secretive.”…

Last weekend, my work had me driving to the very southern end of the Baja. That gave me Sunday morning…