Cannundrums

There are three species of zebra: (1) Grevy's zebra, which we saw in Buffalo Springs NR in Kenya (post on August 24, 2014 ); (2) the mou...

We were in Kidepo Valley NP in northern Uganda in July of this year and saw several jackals which were identified to us as side-striped jack...

The kob is an antelope found in Central Africa and parts of West Africa and East Africa. There are three subspecies of kob: (1) The white-ea...

My son Sam sounded surprised when I told him I'd never seen a hairy woodpecker. I'd heard of them, but knew nothing about them. I go...

My prior two posts have dealt with woodpeckers I saw because my son, Sam, had directed me to where he'd found them. Prior to those woodp...

Like my last post on Lewis's woodpecker, I owe my first view of a pileated woodpecker to my son Sam. He is an arborist and has been work...

My woodpecker loving son, Sam, directed me to the Mt. Wilson Observatory in the San Gabriel Mountains above Los Angeles to find my first Lew...