While working outside yesterday I heard the faint refrains of a singing Vesper Sparrow. That is county life bird #200. My birding in San D...

Nutmeg Mannikin. Lake Hodges, California. December 1, 2013. Greg Gillson. In September 2013 the American Birding Association, following ...

Our move to San Marcos on November 28 to start our new job was supposed to be quick. We had a small U-Haul and friends to help us load an...

Prickly Pear cacti (genus Opuntia ) are fairly uncommon in the hills of San Diego County in the native coastal sage scrub habitat. Eviden...

Western Grebe with chick. Lake Hodges, California. December 1, 2013. Photo by Greg Gillson. It is inevitable that moving 1100 miles sou...