Today was another beautiful day, temps in the low 70’s with gusty 15 mph winds in the AM, less by PM. Our targets today were Montezuma Quail and Rufuous-capped warbler at Hunter Canyon and Plain-capped Starthroat at the Mendoza Alley stakeout in Patagonia. 0-3 on these but had a great day anyway. Hunter Canyon was Read More…
Category: Field Trip
First 33 Hours in Cochise County, AZ
Bruce Labar and I are making a 5 day blitz of SE Arizona. We left SEATAC on a 5:15 AM flight to Tucson Sunday, got to Tucson in time to get a car and dash off birding. We copped a Vermillion Flycatcher from the shuttle-stop at the airport waiting for a ride to to Payless Read More…
Birding with the Kitsap County Birding Gurus
Today I was lucky enough to have the chance to bird a restricted area on Bainbridge Island, Kitsap County, WA with the four 2015 top e-Birders. Brad Waggoner #1, Ken Brown #2, George Gerdts #3, and Mary Ann Rossing #4 allowed me to accompany them on a monthly bird survey of the private community on Restoration Read More…
ABC Birding Trip to JBLM
Saturday Nathanael Swecker led a trip of 11 ABC birding club members to check out new areas and to learn to navigate part of his Joint Base Lewis McChord (JBLM) e-Bird patch. Nathanael has been very prominent in the Pierce County birding scene over the last couple of years with several posts most weeks from various areas of Read More…