You may recall that I took a little trip to Kazahstan in May…I still have a few posts left to write about this wonderful place. I don’t know if I will ever get back, but I hope I do. I have said it before and I will say it again, if you want to feel [ Read More ]
Again, when I said I was going to Las Vegas to see birds, many thought I was a bit crazy. A few thought that I would just see the birds at the casinos like the flamingos above who reside at…The Flamingo. There were also hooded mergansers, shovelers, pochards (which I’ve actually seen in their native [ Read More ]
I need to get back to Spring Mountain Ranch State Park in Nevada. I blogged earlier that I given the advice by the Red Rock Audubon Society to visit here, since there would be different species than we would see in and around Las Vegas. We saw some great birds and I got a life [ Read More ]
When I told people that I was going to Las Vegas on a birding project (and to visit some old friends) people thought I was a little nuts. Vegas in August? The timing may not have been ideal, but there were birds there. Most people tend to think of the casinos and great shows (by [ Read More ]
Las Vegas is a strange world that I cannot quite fathom. I get the spectacle of it, I love how just as a visitor, you yourself become a part of the overall Vegas ambiance, you become part of the background of someone else’s vacation. I love that I can go into a casino and have [ Read More ]
That’s right, we did some birding at Henderson Wastewater Treatment Plant and is also known as Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve (doesn’t that sound better), which is just a hop, skip and jump away from downtown Las Vegas, about 13 miles southeast. This is a popular destination for birders visiting around Las Vegas and certain times [ Read More ]
So, our weekend in Las Vegas went from easy paced fun in the heat to holy crap this is really happening go, go, go, go, go! We got all kinds of footage and now that we have completed the filming and I don’t feel like I’m going to jinx anything, I can say I went [ Read More ]
Well, I don’t know how I survived it, but yesterday, my buddy Clay Taylor and I (and my poor husband Non Birding Bill) went to Sunset Park in Las Vegas for a little afternoon birding…in 104 degree heat. I was a tad moist at the end of it. I wasn’t wearing too many clothes, yet [ Read More ]
If you’d like to read the first part of this leg of our Kazakhstan trip, visit here. I think the Tien Shan Mountains were my favorite, check it out in the above photo–glaciers! One of the people in our group had been to this area before. He said that his group started earlier than ours [ Read More ]
I’ve blogged quite a bit about the first part of my amazing trip to Kazakhstan. We spent the first half on the Steppes (short grass prairie) and then flew from Astana to Almaty. I think my favorite part of the trip was exploring the Tien Shan Mountains near Almaty–beautiful, remote, rugged. Everywhere you went, even [ Read More ]
