Mountains and murres you ask? A fair question, those two things don't go together in my mind either. Yet here in Homer, Alaska, the still snow-covered slopes of the Kenai Mountains reach right down to the cold waters of Kachemak Bay, where rafts of thousands of Common Murres are staging for summer. Roughly pigeon sized, …
Just a handful of photos from my recent trip to Sonora, México! All photos © Marcel Such. Five-striped Sparrow in its shrub of choice
When I get busy in life, I tend to lose track of writing for this blog, but one of my favorite stress releases is photography. As today happens to be the first day of fall, here are a few of my favorite images that I took last weekend while attending the 2016 meeting of the …
Monday, 8:00 pm: Realizing that I don't have anything to do tomorrow, I recruit my roommate Christian to climb a mountain with me. We promptly start rounding up the gear we will need for the ascent. 9:00 pm: The Wildebeest, my 1992 Nissan Pathfinder, is packed and we are en route to the Matterhorn Creek trailhead, …
The Cursorial Birder 