Birds of Tracy Aviary 2012

Totally awesome aviary in Salt Lake City, Utah.  Lunch time in April of 2012

Ecuador Hummers 2008

Okanagon Birding

In January of 2012, my friend Greg Baker took me to a place that I would never had discovered on my own.  In the Okanagan National Forest of northern Washington, in the little village of Chesaw, I got a large number of lifers and really had a great time. 

Snow Bundting

Mountain Chickadee

Juvenile Bald Eagle

And an old raggedy one!

Pine Grosbeak

Common Redpoll

And a lot of just breathtaking scenery!






Gray Capped Rosy-Finch

Rough-legged Hawk

Grey Jay

Gray Partridge

Hilarious Bar and Grill which obviously knew who would be in town!

Redpolls outside the bar.

Well worth a winter trip to see some amazing birds.

Tufted Duck in the Neighborhood

In a Vancouver, Washington neighborhood behind a mobile home park.  Taken late Feb. 2012

Birding Lunch Hour Newport Oregon- Feb 2012

Back in the winter of 2011 I was called upon to try the toughest case of my career.  We started on Jan. 4, and finished at the end of March.  Brutal, and a poor result.  The heck of it is that it is now June of 2013 and we still don't have a final judgment from the court.  Long story, but we have been back to Newport numerous times to argue motions.  One day in Feb. of 2012, I was down on a motion, and went out at lunch time and caught a few winter birds at the Hatfield Marine Science Center.  Here they are:

Red Shouldered Hawk.   Not super rare here, but I had not seen one outside of Florida until this.  Really fun.












The Surf Scoter





A Western Gull who kept flying up in the air with a crab in it's beak and dropping it on the rock until both it and a Crow had a meal. 



And a Brandts Comorant



Way more fun than the trial work!