It's the time of year where practically every bird singing is either a high-pitched note (waxwing, kinglet, creeper, titmouse), or a mon...

I chanced to look out at the feeders to see 4 male purple finches on the feeders. While studying them and sketching the head patterns I not...

Yesterday I got out down below the house into the river bottom for the first time this spring. On some of the south slopes the first wildfl...

It's spring. Really. That must mean it's that wonderful time of year for transitional grebe plumages! Two horned grebes were along...

This afternoon I drove down into the south county to look for widely reported white-fronted geese. The first place I stopped was the 3 Oaks ...

Well, now that I'm home in (mercifully) sunny Michigan I had a chance to look up a few of the butterflies I ran across in Arizona. I fo...

Gambel's quail are a charismatic species I've always associated with Arizona. The males tend to be quite vocal with a variety of con...