We have crossed back into the US for the first time, in over seven years, at least for a little while anyways. The transition...

Christmas morning I looked out my window and saw something I had only seen once before in my backyard, a Phainopepla! I watched as...

The Nuttall’s Woodpecker’s (Picoides nattallii) diet consists mainly of (about 80%) insects, primarily captured by probing and gleaning from tree bark. They also dine on...

The Nuttall’s Woodpecker (Picoides nuttallii) is found primarily in the oak woodlands of California and northern Baja California. It just so happens that I...