The 2025 Birder Recap
Western Bobcat This year has been an interesting one. Or maybe not interesting at all. This was the year of the reboot. It was also about leaving the birding community for a time to get my health and life back together. For the first time in my life, I didn't travel. I stayed home and lived between Tucson and Nogales, Mexico. So when I think back, I actually did quite a bit! My research in the Nogales area was quite rewarding and exciting. Birders here in Arizona just tick and chase the same rarities year after year in the state not really adding any new data. When you first start out, everything is new and exciting. As the years pass, birding transforms into something else. And that something else is different for each birder. No one ever goes to Nogales to bird and so the data was/is lacking. For me,...
