Decorating for the holidays always makes Adam recognize the slow changes his and Sara's home has undergone, as their love for birding has grown. Ten years ago, their tree was covered with ornaments from their childhoods. Now it’s primarily covered in birds.
Thankful for Birds, Beer and Billy Joel
Maybe it’s the beer, or maybe it’s Billy performing live, but it has me thinking about how important perspective is and some of the ‘non-shit’ moments of the year.
Quarantine Bird-cation!
#MaskOn #BirdOn I don’t think that I need to introduce anyone to 2020. I’m going to skip right over the worst of the year and focus on one specific birding topic. Traveling out of state to bird, while being safe and following mandates. After having to cancel a number of trips so far this...
Capitan John P. “Thick-billed” McCown
Last month a college professor and former high school classmate of mine sent me an article about the Thick-billed Longspur. It was from the Washington Post, summarizing the reason, or rather reasons, for the name change to the bird formerly known as McCown’s Longspur. I was aware of the name change, because I have...
Paradise is a Ghost Town
Revisiting a birding destination with a few extra years of experience is always fun. There’s chasing more common birds you missed the first visit, as well as rarities and birds your less-experienced self didn’t know to look for. Sara and I enjoyed the familiarity of past-visited locations in southern Arizona, but new places, of...
#OneMoreBird
After missing the Eared Quetzal, Adam and Sara still had one final bird to chase that day. It was time to drive back through the Chiricahua Mountains in search of #OneMoreBird.
