Nov 28 2008
Hope everyone had a great Thanksgiving! If you live outside the U.S., I know it was just another Thursday, but I still hope you enjoyed family, friends, and good food. The above shot was taken looking east over the Atlantic Ocean from the hawk watch platform at Cape Henlopen State Park, Delaware, on October 12, [...]
Nov 24 2008
Forrest Rowland and I got out early this morning with the intention of birding Burton’s Island, but we had made it only a few meters down the trail when my cell phone rang. It was Michael O’Brien, calling from Cape May to say that Mark Garland and a Cape May Bird Observatory group that Mark was [...]
Nov 18 2008
The exit (or entrance) to the Panamá Canal, looking from Gatún Locks toward the Caribbean Sea It’s time–finally–for me to finish with a few last images from mid-October’s press tour with the Panama La Verde group. When I left off, we had just had a whirlwind day in the Albrook-Gamboa area. We only had two more days, one [...]
Nov 17 2008
A strange thing happens within birding circles–a rare bird can go from a point of pride to a source of a certain kind of shame. Up until this year, having seen a Cave Swallow in Delaware was a distinction that would have produced at least low-level envy among many in this community. Now, it’s rapidly reaching [...]
Nov 14 2008
Don’t know that I’ll become a weekly participant in Skywatch Friday, but it is Friday and I had what I thought was a cool picture of the sky, so here goes. I took this picture November 1, just at sunrise, in the foothills of the Sierra Madre northwest of Ciudad Victoria, in the state of [...]
Nov 13 2008
Actually, Delaware in November isn’t a bad place to be at all, especially if you like birds. But we do have a few drizzly, chilly days this time of the year. I’m finally back in the First State after two weeks away. I have some good news. Liz and I were officially released from Mexico, [...]
Nov 10 2008
Crossing the U.S. – Mexico border, Los Indios Free Trade Bridge The picture above was taken when we were entering Mexico on Halloween morning, nearly two weeks ago. We returned to the U.S. on Election Day, in body, anyway. In the bureaucratic world, it turns out, we are still in Mexico. Or perhaps we are [...]
Nov 07 2008
I’m back from Mexico (as of Tuesday, so I got to watch the election returns!) and leading field trips at the 15th annual Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival. I’ve got some stories and photos from both sides of the border I’m anxious to share, plus I still want to wrap up the Panama press trip [...]
