One of the reasons Mexico is such a great birding area is that, while it shares all sorts of bird groups with the United...

Last week, I told you about my second visit to the roads on the way to the tiny Mexican town of La Escalera (the...

Well, I managed to stick it out for six weeks. Six and a half weeks, to be precise. When our local government called for...

Those who follow my posts know by now that I love gardening. And I love making my little garden (some 1400 square feet) more...

I hope you will forgive my rather lurid title. No, I am not going to tell you about some blood-sucking bird with hypnotic powers....

Because of our age, Mexico’s rising COVID-19 numbers, and my wife’s anxiety about infectious diseases in general, we have been in total lockdown at...

I have commented before in my posts that most of our Warblers here in central Mexico never actually warble. This tendency is so marked...

We birders must really love what we do, because the social cost of doing it is pretty high. I’m not talking about being shunned,...