A Tricycle Ride to a Birding Hotspot

thumbnail Boarding the outrigger boats at Mactan for the trip to Olango Island. At the end of our second day in the Philippines (but just my first ful...

Mr. Brown is Back in Town

thumbnail The brown thrasher returned to our ridge-top farm on Sunday morning. Zick heard him first and yelled it to me from the other end of the hous...

This Just In: Tree Swallow

thumbnail This morning when I took Phoebe out to the bus, dawn was barely breaking and there was a heavy dew on the ground. By the time I took out Lia...

Forest Birding Around Subic Bay

thumbnail Coleto , a starling relative, is a common forest edge bird. Its head is covered in bare pink flesh. On the afternoon of March 3 and the morn...

Giant Golden-crowned Flying Fox

thumbnail I posted an image a couple of weeks ago of the flying foxes my group saw in the Philippines, but I wanted to share a bit more about them. We...

Tracking the Timberdoodle

thumbnail Can't find the woodcock in this photo? It's not there. This was a test shot. It's the time of year when the male American woodco...

Long Live Acoustic Music!

thumbnail There's a real satisfaction in sharing favorite songs, albums, and artists with and among my music-loving friends. A year or two ago, my...

Bee-eaters of Subic Bay

thumbnail On the afternoon of March 3rd we spent a few hours bird watching around Hill 394 in the Subic Bay Freeport area. Subic Bay served as the loc...

Candaba Bird Dancers

thumbnail One of the principal dancers for the Candaba group. Much of the Philippines' natural habitat and landscape has been greatly altered by h...

Traveling to Asia: First Impressions

thumbnail An aerial view of the Philippines. On the morning of March 1, I left my van in the long-term lot at Port Columbus Airport and boarded a Nort...

Birding Update from the Philippines

thumbnail Blue-throated bee-eaters near Subic Bay. It's been good bird watching here in the Philippines, but the bird photography has been quite t...

Flying Foxes

thumbnail A lifer mammal for me in the forest near Subic Bay: fruit bats, which are now (I'm told), officially called flying foxes. We saw two spe...

Sandhill Reflections

thumbnail The blurry lines at top center are sandhill cranes. This is an art shot. These two images of sandhill cranes were taken in New Mexico, near ...

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