Stories

Notes from the field

Encounters, species portraits and what I learned while waiting for the light.

Female vermilion flycatcher with a salmon-tinted belly perched on a pale, lichen-covered branch
October 7, 2026

A Vermilion Flycatcher and a fall migration workshop

Notes from Travis Audubon’s migration workshop, and a quiet morning with a Vermilion Flycatcher at Roy G. Guerrero Park.

Black-crested titmouse clinging to a slender budding stem with a seed in its bill
October 6, 2026

Second place in the 2026 Greg Lasley Photography Contest

My Black-crested Titmouse portrait took second place in Travis Audubon’s annual bird photography contest.