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After 2 days sorting, making pet-friendly hotel reservations, cleaning, doing laudry, taking care of as much business as we can, we birded our last few days here in AZ.  I just finished the last Charlotte & Thomas Pitt novel by … Continue reading →

Yesterday was work, etc – hot & very, very windy. March 17:  St. Patrick’s day!  Got up at 3 AM (I was awake at 2, waiting for the alarm to ring) to get all the way down to the Chiricahua … Continue reading →

March 10:  Off to Portal.  A 2 hour drive east & south to the base of the Chiricahua Mtns.  It was a very cold morning -1 in Benson (+2 in Calgary).  We came across some very cold little Gambel’s Quails … Continue reading →

Mar 3/4:  Drove into Tucson to rent a car since we’re selling the Jeep & have made an estimate of the mileage (& don’t want to overdo it).  So we now have a little red Nissan 4-door sedan.  We are … Continue reading →

Here it is – the last few days before moving to Benson.  Sometimes it seems the month has flown by – sometimes it seems we’ve been here forever!  Whatever we feel & despite the cold mornings & some snow, we’ve … Continue reading →

We have now realized that frost is a reality – and snow!  Here’s what we saw out our window the other day: We have had to scrape the car most mornings this week.  One of the fellows I talked to … Continue reading →

Maybe I shouldn’t complain, but we didn’t flee Canada to deal with freezing temps nearly at the Mexico border!  I guess last year’s experience in Texas (a bit further south, influenced by the Gulf of Mexico – warm & humid) … Continue reading →

To all of our dear family & friends north of the 49th, this may seem hard to believe,  but the trees are “budding” and the birds are singing! We stopped for 2 days in Quartzsite again to go to Cibola … Continue reading →

Yesterday (Jan. 27) we walked Big Morongo.  It got a bit windy (& cool) so we didn’t stay too long.  No new birds, but some nice views of Nuttall’s Woodpecker & Bewick’s Wren.  Bill took a few bird photos with … Continue reading →

Jan. 20:  A lovely, calm morning in Desert Hot Springs, though somewhat windier at Big Morongo.  Found out there are 2 scheduled birding walks each week – Saturdays & Wednesdays.  We want to find the quail, so will join one … Continue reading →