Recent Posts Tagged With 'arizona'

• Wordless Wednesday - Cowbird

  Posted on Wednesday November 5th, 2008 at 01:31 in travel, photos, arizona, cow, vaca, brown-headed cowbird, hereford, cowbird, molothrus ater, vaquero de cabeza café

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• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Tuesday October 14th, 2008 at 06:18 in travel, photo, photos, arizona, az, horned lark, eremophila alpestris, alondra cornuda

  Driving through the Arizona grasslands in search of quail, bunting, sparrows and longspurs; birds flushed from along the road to sit on rusty wire fences.  The most common bird by far was the Vesper Sparrow.  With those white tail flashes and its b...

• 3-Owl-Day

  Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 21:57 in travel, arizona, birding, az, owls, owling

  Melody came to pick me up at O’dark:30 to go owling.   With a warning about possible snakes and illegal drug smugglers, we stalked off into the pitch black desert under more twinkling stars than I have seen in a long, long time.  Shivering i...

• Birding Southeast Arizona-Part 2

  Posted on Sunday October 12th, 2008 at 11:23 in travel, arizona, birding, owls, birdwatching, south east, life birds

  Here is the list for today.  I saw many of the same birds as yesterday; but did add a few lifers.  We spent time in the grasslands since the rain had stopped before heading down to the Chiracuahuas to look for the Mexican Chickadee, Yellow-eyed Jun...

• Birding Southeast Arizona-part 1

  Posted on Saturday October 11th, 2008 at 21:10 in travel, arizona, birds, birding, southeast, az, melody kehl

  To maximize my time in Arizona and not wander all over the state being frustrated, I hired Melody Kehl to guide for me.  She picked me up at the hotel at 5:30 AM to try for the Sinoloa Wren at first light.  The day turned windy and rainy so many bi...

• Arizona Wish List

  Posted on Wednesday October 8th, 2008 at 07:11 in travel, Adventure, arizona, birding, wish list, life birds, melody kehl, target species

  Ferruginous Hawk, Prairie Falcon,Montezuma Quail, Masked Bobwhite, Scaled Quail, Spotted Owl, Elf Owl, Painted Redstart, Red-faced Warbler, No. Pygmy Owl, Common Poorwill, Broad-tailed hummingbird, Williamson’s Sapsucker, Red-naped Sapsucker, Gray ...

• Roadrunner vs. Flammulated Owl

  Posted on Sunday August 10th, 2008 at 20:26 in rescue, migration, arizona, phoenix, az, roadrunner, desert botanical garden, flammulated owl, geococcyx californianus, otus flammeolus, tecolote de ojo oscuro

  I am pulling together an Arizona birding weekend after a business trip in October.  I am going to go out with Melody Kehl, hoping to score some life birds.  I certainly did last time I was in Phoenix. This is a repost from my other blog (before I s...

• Wordless Wednesday-Summertime and the living is easy

  Posted on Wednesday June 4th, 2008 at 05:03 in arizona, small, Dove, Carnival, columbina passerina, common ground dove