Aug 25 2010
Sometimes I dream of South America and the adventures that still exist there. It seems to last continent for the adventure birder. A place where species are still be discovered and new birding areas revealed. Birding along an oxbow lake in Manu or finding Inca Wrens among the ruins of Machu Picchu are some the …
Aug 10 2010
The other day I received a greatly expected package from Houghton Mifflin, my review copy of Molt in North America Birds by Steve N.G. Howell. I quickly ripped the package open and I was staring at a beautiful cover of a molting Northern Gannet. With a familiar crack of a firm spine, I opened the …
Aug 10 2010
This past Saturday, Vida and I decided to hike up to the tippy-top of Mount Blackmore (10,154 feet ASL), the highest peak in the Hyalite group of Peaks in the Gallatin Range. The best way to describe this hike is an ass-buster. It gains over 3500 feet at a steady always up slope in about …
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