In addition to a number of Roadside Hawks and Swallow-tailed Kites, other fun raptors are along the roads as we drive between reserves. Harris’s Hawk is familiar from back home in southern Arizona. What a large range this hawk has, all the way from the … Continue readingRoadside Raptors
Barfoot Park, long loved by birders, herpetologists, boy scouts, and hikers in the Chiricahua Mountains, has been designated a National Natural Landmark in a directive signed yesterday by Interior Secretary Ken Salazar. It joins 590 other locations which have received this honor since the program … Continue readingBarfoot Now a National Natural Landmark
Our technique on the Short-tailed Hawk vigils has been to split up and watch from different vantage points. Helen and Noel have stayed in contact with handheld radios. We’ve each had marvelous encounters with wildlife. Yesterday, the hours passed quickly for Helen, who found no … Continue readingWhile Helen Waited
A wait can be most engrossing. Today I returned to the Barfoot ridges in the Chiricahuas with Cathie Sandell, Christopher Rustay, and Noel and Helen Snyder, again watching for those two young Short-tailed Hawks and their parents. (Incorrigible, you say?) At the very start of … Continue readingWaiting for the Short-tails
Last month saw so few postings because I was deep in a manuscript on the first nest of Short-tailed Hawk found in the western US. In May 2007, Helen and Noel Snyder found the nest high in the Chiricahua Mountains, and several of us took … Continue readingShort-tailed Hawks