White Mountain Audubon Society is offering the Bob and Loretta Pena Memorial Scholarship of up to $2000 to a graduating high school senior from Navajo or Apache County in 2024. Download application

I am fortunate in that I have a sibling—my sister Mary—who is a relatively new birder. How fun is that? Well, as it turns out, REALLY fun. Read all about it in the attached article. Download article

Our Audubon field trip leader Rob Bettaso and I recently met for a birding and stargazing campout in the Mount Baldy area mid-September. We scheduled the trip between my TRACKS hike at the Sipe White Mountain Wildlife Refuge, Rob’s 3rd … Read More

By Sue Sitko In the over four decades (ouch!) I’ve been a birder, I’ve gotten pretty good at calling a Hairy Woodpecker a Hairy Woodpecker and a Downy Woodpecker a Downy Woodpecker. I’ve seen both hundreds of times.  For me … Read More

By Sue Sitko Let’s start with the “morals of the story,” which usually comes at the end: 1) cameras are ALMOST as important as binoculars; 2) a persistent birder can get answers; and 3) you, too, can do what we … Read More

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