I finally had to get a new laptop last week. While almost everything is up and running beautifully, I haven’t managed to figure out...

Those of us who were raised in the four-season north (here in Michoacán one could define, at the most, three seasons) tend to think...

We birders have a different perspective of the world from most other people. To us, borders seem much more porous, and somewhat less real....

In C.S. Lewis’ Chronicles of Narnia, one of the many fantastic characters is a rather human-like frog creature named Puddleglum. Puddleglum is an endlessly pessimistic,...

Since I am an evangelical pastor down here in Mexico, I always feel a bit odd when I give visiting birders their first encounter...

Golf is a good walk spoiled. — Mark Twain Once, and only once, a while after I became a bit crazy about birding, my long-suffering...

The best laid plans… Last week, I had hoped to get permission to get onto the campus of one or Morelia’s many universities, to...

Last week I wrote about my first experience with a new site that a friend thought looked promising when he saw it on Google...