Merlin – Bird of the Day in Embudo Canyon

Everyone was clustered around Rebecca’s scope. I had lagged behind taking a photo of a golden-leafed cottonwood nestled like a beacon in the hillside.
Fourteen Central New Mexico Audubon Thursday Birders were heading back on the Embudo Canyon trail. While clouds still shrouded the mountains and the day started out cold for [...]

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Birding along the Los Angeles River

As a kid growing up in Southern California, the Los Angeles River was always considered a joke – a huge, barren, concrete arroyo with a trickle of water running down the middle. So I was surprised to learn in the past few years that it also has havens of avian habitat.
The river begins [...]

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Fall Birding on Southern California Coast

The morning was cool and clear and a slight breeze wafted across White’s Point off of Palos Verde Peninsula. Before scanning the off-shore rocks, I closed my eyes, took a deep breath of the ocean air and absorbed the sound of the waves lapping against the rocky shore. It was the sound of [...]

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