Memories of Scissors Crossing

2013-03-26 Thrasher Hunt County Road S-2, or the Great Southern Overland Stage Route, runs along the desert floor at the foot of the local San Diego mountains. The route is…

Memories of Imperial County’s Ramer Lake

The heat of summer at Ramer Lake means hundreds upon hundreds of nesting and/or roosting Cattle Egrets, White-Faced Ibis, Double-Crested Cormorants would be present. A few American White Pelicans, numerous…

Memories of Tamarisk Grove

2020-02-21: The Road To Texas Begins I turned left off CA-78 at Santa Ysabel and headed towards Warner Springs. Near the turnoff on the road to San Felipe and Ranchita…

Memories of Fort Lowell Park, Tucson

I’ve enjoyed chasing birds at various venues around Tucson. I have been there many times. One location I visited briefly was Fort Lowell Park. This is a small park with…

Memories of Dirty Socks Springs

2016-04-20 Wednesday The local birding community is well aware of Dirty Socks Springs. Located at the southern edge of the Owens Lake basin, it used to be a county park…

Memories of Clark Dry Lake

2013-04-27 Borrego’s Clark Dry Lake Birds I made several fruitless thrasher hunts during the first half of 2013, and while I failed to locate the Le Conte’s Thrashers I had…

Memories of the Salton Sea at Red Hill

2017-04-20 Salton Sea: Bowles Road to Red Hill I spent the night at Bowles Road and woke up early to find a swarm of tree swallows all around me. It…

Memories of Culp Valley

At 3400 feet in elevation, Culp Valley is up-slope from Borrego Springs 2800 feet below on the valley floor. The habitat here is still desert, but different from the desert…

Memories of Pinyon Wells – Joshua Tree NP

2016 – Early October Camping I spent the second week of October with the bird and mammal department of the San Diego Natural History Museum in Joshua Tree National Park.…

Memories of Tucson Arizona’s Reid Park

I have visited Tucson Arizona often, and have found it a town with many venues suitable for chasing bird-life. On 2008-11-27, I traveled there for Thanksgiving with family in Tucson.…