Recent Posts Tagged With 'az'

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Sunday October 25th, 2009 at 08:54 in travel, photos, az, hepatic tanager

  I am on my way for yet another business trip. Alas, this one will not allow for any squeezed-in birding. I know I have been absent from my much-loved bird blog for a long while, but hang in there with me, this is my last trip of the year.  Let me o...

• Thanksgiving Turkey Special

  Posted on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 03:47 in travel, texas, photos, Turkey, us, wild, thanksgiving, nj, az, subspecies, local schmocal, meleagris gallopavo

  All Turkeys are not the same.  According to Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, there are 6 subspecies of Wild Turkey; 4 of them in the US, the other 2 in Mexico.  I have only seen 3 of the US ones. Meleagris gallopavo merriami — the W...

• 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 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...

• Skywatch

  Posted on Friday October 3rd, 2008 at 04:29 in travel, photos, tucson, foot, Carnival, snake, bridge, az, pedestrian, rattlesnake

  Most people dislike snakes.  I am not sure if it’s an old testament thing or a slithery, scary, cold-blooded, bitey thing, but either way few folk will go out of their way to embrace them.  So imagine my surprise to see the Snake Bridge cross...

• SkyWatch

  Posted on Thursday August 28th, 2008 at 20:48 in home, condo, Carnival, az, holes, cactus, woodpecker, flicker, sonoran desert, saguaro, saguaro national park, carnegiea gigantea

  Beautiful high-rise condo available in the clean air of the high Sonoran Desert.  Sturdy wooden frame with expandable water supply.  Air-conditioned in summer and warm in winter.  Isolated yet safe neighborhood.  High security spines keep out unw...

• 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...