After showing pics of Least and Semipalmated Sandpiper the last few posts I graduated up to Baird's Sandpiper this morning on the pier....

A young Ruddy Turnstone was at the end of the pier this morning just as the first sunrays touched the pier. I'm not sure what to m...

An adult (!) Sharp-tailed Sandpiper was found at Muskegon a few days ago, the first bird I've chased in Michigan in a couple years, prob...

I've been fortunate to have seen a lot more hummingbirds over the last 5 years than I would have predicted.  Some are very common, some ...

Late in the trip we spent much of a day at the La Paz waterfall gardens as we worked our way back to San Jose.  This site had a little of ev...

We only stayed one night at our 3rd motel (I should have made reservations sooner than I did) and I was awake before sunrise to walk the tra...

Last post from the El Cocorro hummingbird garden.  When we stopped there at the very end of our trip 4 years ago it was raining, lightly ini...