No monsoons yet this summer, but rain is in the forecast. Migration is a bit slow so far. Things going good, considering what the future hol...

The past month, or more, has been poor birding and not much in the way of odes or butterflies either. Now a migrant or two is starting to sh...

About a week ago my blog started not letting me comment on comments. I'm not sure I'm even getting comments anymore. I had an expert...

It's been brought to my attention that I haven't blogged in well over two weeks. For anyone that's concerned because of that, al...

Yet again, I arrived shortly after daylight. Checked the tanks and no alarming amount of leakage. Enjoyed the lushness since the rain, and t...

I just love precocial* chicks, maybe because when I was a child we raised chickens. Here are a couple of clips of quail chicks from my trail...

I arrived at the oasis around 7 AM to service feeders and then head back to town. Immediately upon walking over to the mostly empty hummingb...

  Today my sister took her son and granddaughters to see the oasis. She texted me from there that they had found a lone weak baby quail and ...

Just before daylight this morning, my son and I headed to the oasis to service feeders and do some watering . We were surprised to see a few...

 In Alpine I have a lovely little habitat with plenty of water security. It would be great if it wasn't surrounded by barking dogs, and ...