2015-10-18 Mount Lemmon

Another journal entry: With the Samurai out of commission and waiting for its transmission, I found myself dependent on the kindness of loved ones for excursions. On this morning we…

2015-10-15 Tucson via the Salton Sea

Hello (he said after a long break). This blog entry is more a ‘journal’ than an editorial post. Please keep this in mind when working through the text below. My…

Technology, Love It or Hate It

I love technology when it works. I am guilty of dependence on things technical. When I take pictures the computer becomes an indispensable tool to process the files into a…

Do You Have Bird Prejudice?

I believe that most people have bird prejudice, birders and non-birders alike. Birds that are large or showy are popular even among people who have a mild to passing interest…

Endangered Greater Sage Grouse

Open sage country, from the Great Basin and into the Rocky Mountain states, is where you can find the Greater Sage Grouse surviving. During breeding season, sage cocks, as the…

2015-08-19 Saltworks Shorebirds

By August each year, tern nesting is winding down at the Saltworks, but the Snowy Plovers still have a few chicks, so people in the southeast part of the Saltworks…

2015-08-13 Santa Rosa Mountain

I’ve worked as a photographer with the San Diego Natural History Museum (SDNHM) since 2010 on a project called the San Jacinto Resurvey. The goal of this project is to…

2015-08-05 Saltworks

Having spent way too much time of late at the computer rebuilding my website, it was important that I get out to the field. Since Wednesday was a Saltworks day,…

Blue Grosbeak (Bird Of The Day)

Introducing a new series It’s been on my mind recently that I could do a better job of bringing attention to some birds in my Bird Gallery. What I plan is…

2015-07-08 Saltworks

It’s always a pleasure to hang with the science team when they march through the levees at the Saltworks to survey the terns and skimmers nesting there. I’ve been lucky…