Dizzying heights. Gravity-defying balancing acts. Leaps over yawning crevasses. Flights from sheer cliffs of living color. If this sounds like a circus act, you would only be partially right.
Just when the late-spring migrating birds have nearly left my neighborhood – along with every human snowbird that can afford to pack up and roll on to cooler summer RV pads – the monsoon season gives me reason to continue my search for exciting new birds. A birding trip was definitely in order!
It isn’t every day that one adds 16 birds to their life list, but the Sky Islands area of southeast Arizona is teaming with avian wonders. Even experienced birders have a good chance of bumping into a new bird or two…
There’s nothing quite like waking up to the sound of geese gossiping and bullfrogs bellowing or seeing an osprey swoop down and snatch a fish right out of the water. Join me as I recount some of the amazing things we saw at Fool Hollow Lake in the White Mountains of Arizona and share some of the photos I captured.
The “Birds and the Bees talk” is generally the event in most children’s lives in which the parents explain what sexual relationships are. This is not that kind of talk…or is it?
There are horror stories in every photographer’s storehouse of memories – forgetting to load the camera with film (now memory card), running out of battery at a crucial, never-to-be-regained moment. Well, I’ve got my own sad tale to tell – lesson learned and, hopefully never repeated…
