Birding Blog Archives

January 29th, 2013
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Join me for a birding tour of England and Scotland

On behalf of Rick Taylor’s company, Borderland Tours, and Tucson Audubon Society, I’ll be leading an exciting tour of England and Scotland in May/June 2013. It promises to be an excellent tour of birding and ancient British culture. Rick and I did the tour last year with great success, so I’m really looking forward to […]

January 27th, 2013
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Sweetwater Wetlands, Santa Cruz Flats

A lovely day of birding today with Debbie and Bill from Canada. We took in the classic SE Arizona winter birding combo of Sweetwater Wetlands and the Santa Cruz Flats. […]

January 26th, 2013
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The Urban Birder is coming to Tucson

If you’re in or around Tucson on Monday, Feb 4, don’t miss your chance to meet David Lindo, the Urban Birder. David, a fellow Brit, is a broadcaster, author and birding tour leader, as well as an excellent speaker, and he’ll be talking about urban birding in his lecture for Tucson Audubon Society. It should […]

January 24th, 2013
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A Splash of Color

My house here in Rio Rico – Fun Birding Towers, as I like to call it – is only a mile uphill from the lush riparian corridor of the Santa Cruz River. But my habitat is entirely Sonoran desert, with abundant mesquite trees and swathes of forbidding cholla and prickly pear cactus. Accordingly, the resident […]