Across the desert regions of the southwestern United States southward into central Mexico, a feisty little bird thrives. The sight and scolding sounds of the cactus wren, Campylorhynchus ...

The other morning, I had just scattered seed for the quail and other ground-feeding birds and filled their watering dish. Amongst the usual finches, quail, thrashers and chickadees, I noticed a bird ...

Brooding clouds were dancing across the tops of the San Ysidro Mountains as an early spring storm swept eastward from the coast. As they have done for eons, the bouldery peaks were blocking the ...

It was a game of cat and mouse, and this cat was not about to win. I was chasing a cactus wren through a prickly patch of cholla with high hopes of getting a good photo. But the wren just kept darting ...