May 29th was my 63rd birthday, and I got the best birthday present possible. It rained! And it wasn’t a passing shower; no, it...

It’s all about the avocados. Sometime back in 2018, I started sharing some of my photos by e-mail with my sister and aunt. But...

A week and a half ago, I got some exciting news: My beloved Lake Cuitzeo, which I believed had dried up in our ongoing...

It isn’t often that a single outing of mine yields enough photos for two weeks’ posts. But last Wednesday at 1 a.m., only 5...

I have often sung the praises of the beautiful birds I can see by driving 3,000 feet / 62 km / one hour down...

Within my self-imposed one hour birding radius around Morelia, I have so far seen 21 different hummingbirds (15 residents and 6 migratories). That may...

Here it is, the end of April, and things are slowing down in the south. As I mention each year at this time, the...

My state of Michoacán has a wide variety of nectarivorous birds. (Nectarivorous: that’s my new word for this week!) Most, of course, are hummingbirds....