Rainfall in southern Saskatchewan has been plentiful during the previous two years. The ditches are overgrown with grasses such as Brome and Crested Wheat. They produce excellent livestock hay. It is...
Category: Birding Trips
According to history, ancient European naturalists were baffled by the disappearance of millions of European birds each winter. Many species that were numerous in the summer months departed in the...
The steep, pink rock wall of Frijoles Canyon at Bandelier National Monument, strewn with small caves that were originally the cliff houses of the Anasazi, the ancestors of the Pueblo Indians, may...
It's unusual for a birder to visit the Davis Mountains in West Texas in November, but I like it. The grasslands are alive with Horned Larks, Lark Buntings, longspurs, and sparrows settling in for the...
This dictionary contains the bird names used by Lewis and Clark in their expedition journals in alphabetical order. Each bird name is accompanied with the date of usage—usually the initial, or a...
Weyburn, Saskatchewan, has a population of 8,000 people and services wheat growers, stockmen, and roughnecks drilling for medium oil. We observed scores of hawks in the ditches, on power poles, in...