10,000 Birds
JUNE 10, 2020
And while Dogwoods and Eastern Redbuds may be great options in Massachusetts, they won’t grow for me in Morelia, Mexico. Every other year or so, we experience the lightest of frosts, nothing killing, and our warmest temperatures (in the 80s and 90s) occur in late spring. One of our birdiest plants.
10,000 Birds
FEBRUARY 14, 2018
I know these winds had a lot of the birds all settled in, and not moving much, but right off the bat, I got a new Lifer, in a pair of Nuttall’s Woodpeckers. This extremely common duck, just never comes to Mexico. Here is my new Nuttall’s Woodpecker. We don’t get great gas mileage any way, but that just killed us.
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10,000 Birds
AUGUST 18, 2018
When news later reached our little town (likely through a newspaper) that the bird-killing chemical was to be banned, my environmental activism was born. Gila Woodpecker. According to Audubon, “this big tropical oriole is common in northeastern Mexico, but was not found in our area until 1939. 50-mile Border Impact Zone.
10,000 Birds
JUNE 3, 2014
Female Imperial Woodpecker in flight, Mexico, a still from recently found film made by William Rhein, p. Eskimo Curlew, Passenger Pigeon, Ivory-billed Woodpecker, Bachman’s Warbler, Carolina Parakeet—these are names that echo mightily through birding histories and even some recent field guides.
10,000 Birds
AUGUST 29, 2014
Sorry, that was gratuitous – HAWRs are Happy Wrens , and they live in Mexico.). I took in a Warrior Queen Red-tailed Hawk hit by car (WQ RTHA HBC) who awed me with her strength and ferocity, but irritated me with her habit of trying to kill me every time I opened her crate. I once went through a short illustration phase.
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 28, 2012
This post is old news to those who pay attention to what I say on Facebook but I am still pleased as punch to point out that I have finally reached the 500-bird milestone in the American Birding Association area (basically North America north of Mexico). How did I finally reach this lofty peak?
10,000 Birds
DECEMBER 1, 2020
She seamlessly interweaves memories of her bryologist father (he collected mosses), statistics on building-killed birds and the Audubon volunteers who collect them, details of modern taxidermist techniques seen on a visit to a Pennsylvania taxidermist, and the sight of hundreds of bird study skins at the Cornell University Museum of Vertebrates.
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