Category: USA trip

I  opened the curtains to look at the feeders in Richard Fray’s ‘yard’ before 6am on Thursday morning and all the birds flew away.  But then they came back and from my bed I saw two lifers – canyon towhee and varied bunting.  How great is that? And there were curve-billed thrashers and jackrabbits and…

Apologies for the late posting of this blog – yesterday was a great day but ended with difficulties in finding accommodation, difficulties in finding a meal and impossibilities in getting onto the internet.  Never mind. Where was I?  The last ‘live’ update you got from me was just before I went to talk to Tucson…

If you are reading this it means that I have spent today without time to write a blog.  This will, I hope, be because I have been seeing loads and loads of birds with Richard Fray. Seen: Bumper sticker – Obama so loved the poor that he decided to make millions more of them Billboard…

You get two blogs today for the price of none. Today has been a lovely day – although I am writing this in a Starbucks in Tucson before giving my talk this evening so maybe it’ll all go wrong. It’s been an easy day.  I woke around 6am and set off from Ajo towards Tucson…

If you are reading this then it’s because I didn’t have time to write a blog ‘today’ because I was giving a talk to Tucson Audubon – so I wrote this ‘yesterday’  (except that another blog follows this one – I spoil you really). This is a very useful website as it gives you bird…