I began documenting my annual wildlife highlights in 2008, and it has become an annual tradition. This is my 15th edition. Most years my wildlife highlights include birds seen on travels, or rare...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2024/01/08/wildlife-highlights-of-2023/
I began documenting my annual wildlife highlights in 2008, and it has become an annual tradition. This is my 14th edition. A friend kept reporting that she had a Black-chinned Hummingbird at her ...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2023/01/02/wildlife-highlights-of-2022/
“There it is,” Barb stated as we were driving east through the flat prairie from Ft. Sumner mid-morning September 18. The sparse stand of trees, an Audubon New Mexico (now Audubon Southwest) ...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2021/10/03/newly-restored-important-bird-area-dedicated/
“When Bonnie asked me whether Barbara and I wanted to have the Thursday Birders again this year,” Bill Simms began – and then paused before continuing. “It’s an important story to tell ...
On January 4, 2021 a Common Raven flew over my head as I was returning to my house from my morning walk and landed in my neighbor’s fir tree, where it appeared to be eating a snack. Its dark fe...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2021/06/26/common-ravens-in-the-hood/
“Oh my,” Chris said as we pulled into the main part of the refuge and turned towards the Flight deck where hundreds of Snow Geese were resting in the water next to the road. I had not been to...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2021/02/06/bosque-del-apache-visiting-after-a-years-absence/
I began documenting my annual wildlife highlights in 2008, and it has become an annual tradition. While 2020 started off with a bang, I have been staying close to home since mid-March, so this ...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2020/12/30/wildlife-highlights-2020/
As I pulled into the parking area near the entrance of the Valle de Oro NWR, I saw a woman with binoculars and camera talking with a man, and he was gesturing what appeared to be directions. She ...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2020/10/04/birding-valle-de-oro-nwr-on-foot/
Barb Hussey, Bonnie Long and I explored fall birds at Elena Gallegos Open space on September 24. As we got out of our cars at the parking area where the Cottonwood Trail starts, we could hear the...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2020/09/29/fall-birds-at-elena-gallegos-open-space/
We needed to get out of the heat and wildfire smoke lingering at lower elevations, Barbara Hussey and I headed for the Ellis Trailhead on August 20. Our plan was to bird along the service road to...
https://wingandsong.wordpress.com/2020/08/22/migration-highlights-ellis-trailhead-to-upper-tram/