This year, again, Alan and I joined the national ritual of Christmas Bird Counts, once more participating in the back-to-back counts for Portal, Arizona, and the Peloncillo Mountains, New Mexico. The weather couldn’t have been finer, with temperatures rising into the high 60s and low … Continue readingCelebrating Our Local CBCs
[If you’ve noticed that a couple of my most recent posts have disappeared, it is because Google’s blogging platform was compromised, and has been out of commission for about a day. I’m hoping that the missing posts will reappear soon.] Last night the most obvious … Continue readingProgress on Horseshoe 2 Fire
This morning at the fire briefing in Portal, the new map for the Horseshoe Fire hadn’t changed from the last one: the small amount of burning yesterday was in the interior of the fire. Today a major topic at the fire briefing was the weather. … Continue readingThunderheads