We first heard about the Long-billed Hawk Syndrome at the High Desert Museum. We read a short article that was posted on a bulletin board in their Birds of Prey exhibit hall. Curious and concerned, I did a bit of research on the web, and thought I’d share it with you. The first case was [...]
We picked our new location of Klamath Falls somewhat randomly, but there were several factors we considered. First, it was just about the right distance for us to travel—we like to keep our mileage around 200 miles if we can. Second, Lance had read that there was pretty good birding in the area, and finally, [...]
Thank you to everyone who took a shot at the April 2008 Travel Challenge, which was another in our series of “Count the Ducklings”.
Congratulations to Alison for the most specific guess—she even nailed the exact number of ducklings in the photograph!
This family of Black-bellied Whistling Ducks mystified us because we came across them at Cooper [...]
I must preface my story about the San Diego Wild Animal Park by asserting that they could have easily named it the San Diego Wild Africa Park since the majority of the park’s 400 plus species of animals are from the huge continent. In fact the location for the park in the San Pasqual Valley [...]
We set off a bit later in the day than we had hoped, sometimes life just gets in the way. It was a chilly but sunny morning as we hit I-10 heading east. We thought we were dressed appropriately in jeans and long-sleeved shirts but soon we would be dreaming of shorts. In Benson we [...]
As we were driving to visit an area of the Santa Cruz River, Lance and I had to laugh. Just two short years ago we would have never entertained the idea of driving somewhere just to see a bunch of birds. In my family birders were affectionately called “Bird Brains.” Funny how life changes.
Of course, [...]
Thank you for all the great guesses for the December 2007 Mystery Photo—congratulations to Debi and Alison their close guesses.
The birds in question (11 of them in the picture below) are from a famous flock. For those of you who may not be familiar, they have their own book and movie, both titled Parrots of [...]
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