Morelia is a city surrounded on three sides by pine/oak forest. Go a little farther and you can also find different kinds of thorn...

So my birding buddy who is a botany professor lives on his family’s seven hectares (17 acres), a mere ten minutes’ drive from my...

So there I was, with three birding buddies, in a rare outing to a site only on the very edge of Morelia’s urban area....

As I have written before on this site, I consider even a bad day birding to still be a great walk in the woods....

So here is where we were a week ago in central Mexico: Some of the country’s most important and largest lakes, such as Lake...

It seems that almost none of the major storylines in my life were the result of any planning on my part. I studied music...

Those who read my posts regularly — and some recent comments have assured me that you are, in fact, out there — will know...

This week, I once again found myself car-challenged. So I went to another nearby site, Las Mesas, which did not offer any unusual narrative....