Author: Jim Gain
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stops 4 and 7 – Inyo Craters
By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/13/2022 & 6/14/2022 Rich and I made two stops here, Stop #4 on Monday afternoon and Stop #7 on Tuesday afternoon. The Inyo Craters are three north-south-aligned phreatic (steam) explosion craters on the summit and south flank of Deer Mountain. Six hundred years…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 3 – Mono Lake County Park
By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/13/2022 The chorus of wrens and vireos hit us as soon as we stepped out of the car. From every clump of cottonwoods along the creek that winds through the park, came the sounds of House Wrens and Warbling Vireos that competed for…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 2 – Virginia Lakes Resort
By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series 6/13/2022 At a 10,000′ elevation, with a cool temperature of 38 degrees, 32 % humidity and brisk winds at 18-20 mph, the relative temperature of around 20 degrees made this stop a challenge. The folks that manage Virginia Lakes Resort are pretty good…
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Rosy-Finch Rendezvous: Stop 1 – Donnell Overlook
6/13/2022 By Jim GainRosy-Finch Rendezvous Birding Adventure Series After a gourmet breakfast stop for breakfast sandwiches and Starbucks coffee, we arrived at the Donnell Vista overlook eagerly looking for a couple of our Montane target birds. We had lofty goals of finding Sooty Grouse, Mountain Quail, Hermit Warbler and Evening…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #9 – Santa Rita Mountains
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. PATAGONIA LAKE SP After the Paton Center for Hummingbirds, we stopped briefly at the nearby Patagonia…
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Operation PhotoTrogon – Finito
By Jim Gain The next morning as we pulled ourselves out of bed and slowly started to shake off the cobwebs, we both realized that at this point our trip had been a complete success. Undoubtedly, probably the best birding trip we had ever been on. Rich suggested that perhaps…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #8 – Paton Center Redux
OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. Well, we opted not to swing by Tony and Julie’s Battiste Bed Breakfast & Birds to look for the…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #7 – Ash Canyon Bird Sanctuary Redux
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #6 – Carr Canyon Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #5 – Miller Canyon–Beatty’s Guest Ranch Operation PhotoTrogon…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #6 – Carr Canyon
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. After leaving Miller Canyon we took the road up to Carr Canyon which proved to be…
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Operation PhotoTrogon Stop #5 – Miller Canyon–Beatty’s Guest Ranch
By Jim Gain OPERATION PHOTOTROGON This blog series chronicles the adventures that Rich Brown and I experienced on our quest to find and photograph the amazing birds of Southeast Arizona in May of 2022. IN SEARCH OF WHITE-EARED HUMMINGBIRDS This morning’s destination was to include my first ever visit up…
Reflections of the Natural World 