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The Little Big Year-Week 44: Off to the islands ‘Mon

10,000 Birds

Last week, we quite impulsively jumped in a rental car and drove 2600 miles round trip to south Texas to pick up 34 new species. That was the best possible spot we could find from our Tucson base, and given our badly stressed budget. This is only my second ever Yellow-throated Warbler , my first was last week in Texas.

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Jean Kazez

Animal Ethics

Jean and I overlapped by one year: August 1987 (when she arrived in Tucson) to August 1988 (when I departed for College Station, Texas). I have had no contact with Jean all these years, and today, out of the blue, she sent me an e-mail notifying me of a blog post about animals and telling me that she likes this blog.

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