Every year, around this time, I feel the need to get an early start and drive a full hour to Cerro de Garnica. That...

When I got back into birding about six years ago, I would not have predicted the personal bonds a birder can form with certain...

I took a couple of weeks “off” from chronicling my weekly outings, in order to give my thoroughly amateur recommendations on bird photography, for...

It always surprises me when people compliment my photographs. As I have often commented on this site, I started taking photos of birds only...

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....

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...