Around the World

From time to time I have written reports of my trips. Read about the seabird colonies of Britain, Australia, New Zealand, Peru, Midway Atoll, Antarctica, Mexico.

Wandering Wild America 

The webmaster traveled around North America in a camper for 3 years. These are a few of my trip reports.

Wandering Wild America - Not just birds

2010

San Diego Winter
St Lawrence Island - Gambel 2010  WIP

2006
Dinosaur Tracks
North American Rock Art
Rio Grand Valley of Texas - Drought

2005
Montana- A Great Birding Road
Alaska - Inside Passage, Aleutians, Kenai, Denali


2004
May - Newburyport Massachusetts
June - Bar Harbor Maine and Acadia National Park
November - South Florida Everglades, Corkscrew, Ding Darling

1976 Roger Tory Peterson's Dozen Birding Hot Spots  by George Harrison Simon and Schuster
I had been birding for several years before I read this book.  It did plant the idea of traveling to see different birds you couldn't find in your backyard.  Once I started I never stopped.   My first hotspot was to visit Point Pelee.  Over the years I carefully checked off the hotspots as I visited them.  I never did make the whole dozen.    Someday  I am determined to make it to Bear River.  Two others will remain unvisited.  The Platte is  difficult to visit in early spring and there are many other places for Sand Hill Cranes. Hawk Mountain must be visited on a good migration day and I have been to Mt. Wachusetts in Massachusetts several times on good days.

The book is out of print, but here are the dozen hotspots:

1. Everglades: A Place for Anhingas and Avocados
2. Southern Texas: Down Mexico Way
3. The Platte: River of Cranes *
4. Southeasters Arizona: Rising from the Desert Floor
5. Point Pelee: Funnel to the North
6. Bear River: Paradise for Water Birds  *
7. Coast of Maine: Down East Islands
8. Gaspé: Seabird Bastion
9. Hawk Mountain: Sailors of the Mountaintops *
10. Cape May: The Morning of Birding Madness
11. Horicon: At the Sign of the Flying Goose
12. Tule-Klamath-Malheur: Sound of a Million Wings

* not visited by Emmalee Tarry