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Birding El Coro, Baja California Sur

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  Gene and Kay, a couple of Baja birders who came to buy Chris’ wonderful book, Birds We See in Baja California Sur, Mexico told us about a little river in El Coro.  Immediately, we both started thinking…water = birds!  So, a couple … Continue reading

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Bountiful Baja Birding

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Funny when you are a birder.  Some days can be uneventful and even downright defeating when you are all set to capture that “great shot” of a beautiful Baja bird and you come away with nothing.  Other days, you can’t … Continue reading

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One Of Our Favorite Baja Birding Areas

  We went birding at the lagoons today. Sorry, no photos from this chick….(no pun intended)!  It was our first time back since my bobcat incident a couple of months ago. I summoned up the courage to go back to the point of eye … Continue reading

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Fascinating story on one of our Baja birds

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  Too cold to bird outside in the Northwest today so I did a little birding inside, playing catch up on my reading, which consists of, yeah, you guessed it….birding magazines.  When I got to my Audubon magazine, I was … Continue reading

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Baja Birding up an arroyo

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  Haven’t been up the San Bartolo arroyo in several years.  Funny how we can become creatures of habit, possibly missing so many opportunities to experience different species and how they live their lives at the same time we are living ours … Continue reading

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The Birds and the Bees and a thing called Love

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Happy Valentine’s Day!  My honey and I have been thinking about this day and decided to do some Birds Se See in Baja California Sur posts and share them with you!  We love watching and listening to the birds and … Continue reading

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They act like hummingbirds

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  This beautiful and flighty little bird is the Orange Crowned Warbler.  Mom and Chris and I were watching him on the south patio the other day.  It was amazing.  He was acting like a hummingbird as you will see in the photos … Continue reading

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Is it really pollen?

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  Ever so often, we see this little girl or one very much like her flitting around.  Now, you may ask…what kind of hummingbird is this bird we see in our Baja backyards?  We mostly only have two hummingbirds in … Continue reading

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Birds We See? A surprise!

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  Ok…house keeper’s coming this morning.  Do we want to go to the lagoon and see if we can chase down some Western Meadow Larks?  The elusive ones we could not get a great photo of last time we were … Continue reading

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Birding Adventures TV host James Currie

We wanted to let you know about this upcoming TV show.  It will include several of the birds we see in Baja California Sur.   AERIAL ASSASSINS PREMIERS ON NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC! Dear Debbie,BE SURE TO CATCH THE PREMIER OF “AERIAL … Continue reading

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Wanna go for a walk?

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  Morning! Fresh ground coffee on the terrace overlooking the calm Sea of Cortez and watching the beautiful sunrise. Is this heaven? What’s on the agenda today miel? Kayaking? Fishing? Birding? Swimming? After several minutes of discussion and watching the … Continue reading

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Take it easy on you

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  I’m sure that this blogging and posting website stuff is going to need continuous updating.  We will continue to try to take it easy on you, the subscriber.  We have recently added a feature that will automatically (I hope) … Continue reading

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Bunting hunting in the Baja arroyos

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  Water? Check.  Food?  Check.  Cameras? Check.  Extra batteries? Check.  Ready?  Let’s go!  We jump on the quads and with smiles on our faces, head out to go Bunting hunting.  Varied bunting hunting to be exact.  We have been fortunate … Continue reading

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My 2012 Wish List

  Since it’s the season, I’m going to post my wish list.  If you have any of these birds around and would like to share with us, please email us at your earliest convenience and we’ll come running, cameras in … Continue reading

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What a great Christmas present!

We got another lifer, the Cassin’s verio, and at the same time enjoyed the weather and surrounding beauty of Southern Baja.  I find a little cover to shoot behind and become frozen, waiting for some action.  In a bit, I look over … Continue reading

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Back amongst our Baja Birds

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  What a pleasure it is to see our feathered Baja friends again.  Baja birds are so colorful and their behavior is unmatched. This morning we observed the Hooded Orioles mating.   Something we had seen before but never in … Continue reading

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Books on birds in Baja California Sur, Mexico

  If you are like me, scanning the internet for books on what interest me, which most are hard to find bird books or books on birds with great photography, you’ll see why author C.E. Llewellyn decided to write and … Continue reading

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Great Christmas Gift

  Well, whoever said writing a book was easy didn’t market it! We’ve been trying to get Chris’ newly released birding book Birds We See, in Baja California Sur, Mexico out so people can take advantage of this great Christmas … Continue reading

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Working on avatars

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We are working on getting our avatars, of course they are bird shots we have taken in our travels to Africa and Baja California Sur, MX. I chose the Lilac Breasted Roller that we were fortunate enough to see whilst … Continue reading

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Work in progress

Hi everyone, We are working on this website so please be patient with us. It’s something that we are working on together so we are kind of stumbling through and trying to get a feel of what exactly it is … Continue reading

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