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Scouting Tuscany: WINGS Tour 2010
My new Birds and Art in Tuscany tour will run for the first time next May 17-27, starting in Rome and ending in Pisa (the region’s major international airport). The approach is similar to that I take...
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Hooded Crow
Remember the passage in Wild America where James Fisher admits to missing one thing about England? It’s the corvids: America, he mused, was lacking in great noisy social crows. Fisher was talking...
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WINGS: Birds and Art in Tuscany–new photos
The photo gallery for next year’s Birds and Art in Tuscany tour is up now. http://wingsbirds.com/galleries/gallery/167 Makes me wish I were back there already!
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Zygaena Moth: Tuscany
Pretty beautiful–and very common in the Apuan Alps a couple of weeks ago.
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Swallow Migration Begins
Among the common breeding birds of southeast Arizona that have not yet made it onto our modest yard list are some that enjoy a virtually worldwide distribution. Of the birds that are still MIA, Barn...
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Off to the Old Countries
My European tours start on Monday, so I’m off to Rome this morning, followed by eleven days in Tuscany and then ten in Provence. I’ll try to keep this b-log updated, along with my facebook account;...
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Birds and Art in Tuscany: Day Zero
Wow, it’s a long ways from Vancouver to Rome! But my flights–there were, blessedly, only two, from Vancouver to Toronto and Toronto to Rome–were no more harrowing than I suppose they had to be, and we...
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Tuscany: Birds and Art 2010
Join Marco and me in 2011! Of all the tiresome tasks of travel, continuous packing and unpacking is the worst; it’s unavoidable on many birding trips, of course, but it’s still a finetreat to be able...
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The Birds of Il Poderino
The fields and orchards of our inn at Manciano were gratifyingly birdy, and by the time our week there had drawn to a close, we’d recorded the following species (the superscripts, which I’ll complete...
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Why You Should Bird Tuscany This May
Panama. Ecuador. Kenya. Central Italy? Of all the places around the world I’ve been lucky enough to bird, none combines so many different and so many wonderful activities as Tuscany, that gentle...
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