Any California-raised person knows that it just doesn’t rain in California in June. San Francisco averages two-tenths of an inch for the month, while...

An eternity ago, when our now-adult children were young enough to watch Sesame Street, that show used to have segments about diversity with the...

I may have mentioned in previous posts that I have recently had a to-the-death struggle with the Mexican banking system. This has made me...

All right, I’ll admit it. I’m feeling pretty good about myself right now. I came back from a Monday birding trip and told my...

Towhees are large, ground-hugging sparrows that occur only in North America. They belong to either the Pipilo or Melozone genera, or perhaps both, as...

I’ve been through a few rather complicated weeks lately, so my last couple of outings haven’t been very ambitious. The second week of May,...

(No, this is not a reference to my personal worst birder joke ever, that One good tern deserves another. Although that joke does apply...

There is an association of wildlife photographers down here, much maligned among my Mexican birder friends for a variety of reasons, which has proposed...