After visiting the Ara Project (www.hatchedtoflyfree.org) near San Jose my family and my friend Tiffany (we both studied at La Selva Biological Station in 2006 through a program at The Evergreen State College) headed out towards Monteverde. All of us except my mother had traveled… Read More
The landscape of presentation, the selective facts that drive inquisition, and the visual stimulus, combine in the best cases for endless learning. It can be overwhelming, for it’s easy to walk away with the impression of comprehending little and feeling exhausted for it. People blame… Read More
Migration happens once every year. And then again maybe 6 months later. Really it depends on an number of factors, but around here, starting in late July and extending through late September many birds are on the move away from their breeding grounds. Some are… Read More
The Cactus Wren is the state bird of Arizona, but that is probably the least interesting of designations. More importantly it is also a member of one of the largest genera of wrens Campylorhynchus, dominating both in size and number of species (the largest, Giant… Read More
“Holy Shit, there’s a fucking Lewis’s Woodpecker in the backyard. I gotta call you back.” I was talking with my friend Ryan on the phone about birding, standing in my parents’ jungle of a suburban backyard. A few less usual birds, including a Yellow Warbler… Read More
As the nighthawks fly with lazy, yet determined wing beats I know the road to Hart Mountain is approaching. I’ve been greeted by nighthawks here before. I watch them as I turn onto Hart Mountain Road and consider them my welcome home as they wheel… Read More
I tend to subscribe to the notion that modern Western society likes to ignore our necessity for the natural world. Frontier living especially, put our predecessors literally at odds with, striving against an ecosystem that hadn’t developed to support them. So there is certainly no… Read More
While I write my next excerpt from my recent trip to Costa Rica I couldn’t help but post this photo of a male Gyrfalcon. I was able to sit with this bird today, on my fist. As I looked at the way his feathers overlapped… Read More
(Quick note – I always strive to use either my own photos or those of my contributors but sometimes you just don’t have the photos you need!) Two Common Nighthawks (Chordeiles minor) in a week! With an English binomial such as this – you wouldn’t… Read More
(A quick intro – Simone is the other main contributor to Wingtrip, but she’s been busy traveling, hunting bunnies with her hawks, and having intellectual freak outs about Carnivorous plants. This is the first installment of her report from a trip to Costa Rica) The… Read More
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