Cannundrums

In March 2023 I was with Judy and my granddaughter Ella in Tatama NNP in Colombia , staying at the Montezuma Rainforest Ecolodge, one of the...

My prior post was on the dusky grouse, which used to be the same species as the sooty grouse when both were identified as blue grouse. The d...

The dusky grouse and sooty grouse used to be part of the same species known as the blue grouse. The dusky grouse is found in the mountainous...

The California quail is the quail of my youth growing up in the foothills of Salt Lake City. It is also the quail of my mid-life and now old...

On March 18, 2022 I visited the Mashpi Amagusa Reserve , in the Mashpi-Pachijal IBA, near Mindo in Ecuador. One of the most significant morn...

The purple finch has been an elusive find. I have seen lots of very red house finches that I've wondered might be purple finches, to no ...

On April 8, 2023 I was at Big Morongo Canyon Preserve in Morongo Valley, California when I saw my one and only (so far) pine siskin. It is ...