December 31st, 2010   Tags: , ,

Atascosa Highlands CBC

Upper-Sycamore-Canyon-10-1231-04The weather played a big part. It was cold and for much of the morning it was snowing lightly. We struggled to find many birds all day, despite a concerted effort. Our best birds were a lowland BROWN CREEPER and four EASTERN BLUEBIRDS, which proved to be the only ones on the count. [...]

December 26th, 2010   Tags: ,

Atascosa CBC coming up

Golden-Eagle-Sycamore-Canyon (2)Last year we had some great birds including seven Montezuma Quail, four Black-chinned Sparrows, three Grasshopper Sparrows and a Golden Eagle overhead being attacked by an angry Red-tailed Hawk for about twenty minutes. Amazing! But what can we find this time? [...]

December 19th, 2010   Tags: , , ,

Elfrida CBC

It’s an early start for the Elfrida CBC, the Christmas Bird Count in the center of the Sulphur Springs Valley. The count circle is divided into four and over the previous four years I have covered each segment of the count. This year I was honored to spend the day with Sheri Williamson and [...]

December 18th, 2010   Tags: , ,

Tucson CBC

For my second CBC of the season, I was joined by my friend Ed Tobin for my sixth Tucson count.

Once more I covered the same area, a portion of very nice foothills homes roughly bordered by Orange Grove to the south, Magee to the north, Campbell to the east and Oracle to the west. [...]

December 16th, 2010   Tags: , ,

Patagonia CBC

There is always a buzz of excitement about when dozens of birders meet at the Gathering Grounds in Patagonia before the Patagonia Christmas Bird Count. I was assigned to a team, given an area, and off we went, in search of interesting birds as we counted everything that crossed our paths.

It was a very [...]