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2020-May at Bitter Lake NWR, New Mexico
After several memorable months in Texas, even enduring the craziness and uncertainty of the earliest days of the pandemic, I began my first Texas Exodus in 2020-May. I was in…
Memories of Bear River, UT
Twice, I have cruised through the wetlands of Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge. These fields, ponds and marshes lie at the northeastern margins of Utah’s Great Salt Lake. Following are…
2023-07-04~08 In The Davis Mountains
I stayed four nights at Davis Mountains State Park. For $20 a night with electricity, it was a bargain. I hoped it would give me a chance to make progress…
2023-05-09 Point Pelee Canada
2023-05-10 Wednesday This morning I said goodbye to Point Pelee. The local folks I met during my visit said I was a week early for the warbler migration. Nearly everyone…
2023-04 April In Kansas
While my Canadian destinations are getting hammered with one storm after another, I am biding my time in Kansas. I needed to stay until my suspension airbag was replaced nevertheless,…
2021-04-18 SPI Sunday Bird Fallout, Round Two
Gone were the dense clouds and drizzling rain that plagued me early Saturday. The wind and the birds remained. There seemed to be even more birds on the island than…
2021-03-10 Wednesday at San Bernard NWR
I spent the night Tuesday at a rest stop on the Interstate-10 freeway east of Houston. I endured a lot of drive time exiting Louisiana after I decided not to…
Memories of Bitter Lake NWR, New Mexico
After four days on the road from Brownsville, I followed the Pecos River upstream from Texas and crossed into New Mexico on Sunday, May 10th of 2020, and found a…
2019-08-18 Klamath Basin
The drive from Oregon to San Diego prevented me from a timely presentation of this day’s events, and of the last episode of this odyssey at Mono Lake. (Stay tuned)…
2019-08-12 Eureka and Points South
… and then it happened. My stay in Crescent City was a good one. The harbor had been especially rewarding. I enjoyed the birds I met, and the weather was…
2017-09-07 Central Oregon Coast
A study on “peeping” I awoke at the north end of Coos Bay (North Bend Oregon) to a dense fog, then drove out the Horsfall Beach road. A recommended trail…
2017-08-17&18 Antelope Island Swallows
Swallows in flight are difficult subjects to photograph. When I realized I was overloading on gull and phalarope images, I paid attention to these elusive birds darting low over the…
2017-08-16 Bear River
After showing Jerry and me the Promontory Road raptors in the early morning, Joe took us out to the Bear River Migratory Bird Reserve. While I’d visited this area in…
2017-08-14 Bicknell Bottoms
I’ve not been able to keep up with my reports from this trip because of the hectic pace I’ve had to keep this past week. I plan to get caught…
2015-06-03 Malheur NWR
Malheur National Wildlife Refuge is located roughly 30 miles south of the town of Burns Oregon. I arrived in the afternoon after my mud-slinging drive down the BLM Access Road,…
2015-05-12 Two Days At Bear River
The Bear River Migratory Bird Refuge, west of Brigham City Utah is 80,000 acres of marsh, open water, uplands, and alkali mudflats. There is a one-way dirt track loop through…
2015-05-08 Bicknell Bottoms
Yesterday’s visit at this place was just not enough to take it all in, so I opted to stay another day. My drive took me nearly completely around the valley,…
2015-05-07 Otter Creek and Bicknell Bottoms
I left Mount Carmel Junction and headed north on Highway US-89. It’s about a three-hour drive into Bicknell Utah, and then but a few minutes south to what the locals…