10,000 Birds
JULY 9, 2019
The Great Horned Owls that live in the palm trees right above our RV have returned and brought with them a pair of fledglings. Last week, a good friend, Dan Weisz gave me a tip on the location of a family of Burrowing Owls that were extremely easy to access. That was no deterrent from landing right in the middle of the road.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2021
You fly to Phoenix, or Tucson, rent a car (or ride a bike cross-country, if you are Noah Strycker), drive to the tiny towns of Patagonia and Sierra Vista, and voila! A quick study as I researched this post revealed that fully 37 Arizonan “specialties” are common birds right here where I live.
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10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 19, 2018
That was the best possible spot we could find from our Tucson base, and given our badly stressed budget. It seems his family of 5, had rented a condo that sleeps 8, at Atlantis Resort, on Paradise Island, in the Bahamas. This Black-throated Blue Warbler was a bird we missed while in Texas, so it was great to see one right off the bat!
10,000 Birds
MARCH 8, 2011
In the right season, with a little luck, we often find it, and sometimes it perches high and long enough that we can admire its scimitar of a bill, its stern face pattern, and even the patch of rusty red on the undertail that gives the species its English and its scientific names. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.
10,000 Birds
MARCH 22, 2011
The naming of the hornbill family is a bit farther fetched. Wikimedia Commons Bucerotidae is etymologically opaque to most birders, I’d venture, but when Rafinesque described the family almost two centuries ago, he had kine on his mind. Wicked, right? Hat-tip to Stella.
10,000 Birds
SEPTEMBER 5, 2017
The bird was a little harder to find than I expected; I needed to triangulate the sounds of the call and finally, after standing and looking and walking around the tree where the bird had to be calling from, I took a deep breath, looked again, and there it was right in front of me, actually at eye level. At least for birders.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 26, 2018
We have escaped the clutches of the Bahamas, and are finally back “home” in Tucson, Texas. Our first stop was the Lakeview Drive Ponds, Corey’s primary birding location when he and his family visited the island a few years ago. We got a bit of a late start as the cruise ship does not unload its guests until about 9-9:30.
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