While primarily focused on owls, I made sure to have the time to also photograph the other unique wildlife species of Southeast Arizona.

This year I returned to the Southwestern Research Station to conduct field research on the owls of the Chiricahua Mountains.

On our way back home, we made a stops at many various bird-filled locations, such as Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve and Cataract Lake.

Driven by their endless desire for sugar, these tiny beasts will stop at nothing to placate their insatiable hunger.

Earlier this summer, I headed down to Arizona to join a research project headed by Dr. Dave Oleyar about owls in the Chiricahua Mountains.

At first, though expected, it was rather disappointing to find so little birds in the scorching heat of the desert, but when we delved deeper, we found that things were a bit more interesting than it had seemed on the surface.

Throughout most of our trip in Death Valley, it almost seemed like there were more non-avian animals than birds. Of course, that was quickly disproven, but that doesn’t discount the fact that there were a lot of nice pictures to be had that were not just of birds.

While the Monterrey CBC got rained out, we still were able to get interesting photos of the local coastal wildlife.

Despite being bogged down with work, I have gotten the chance to bird a bit outside of my normal schedule and capture a few pictures.

Constantly chased by the prospect of thunderstorms, we never stayed in one spot too long. However, with the lightning came beautiful scenery.

Although the heat and humidity was a bit much, we were still able to bird and find our target species.

Michigan was one of our more successful stops, as we found nearly all of our target birds and even a few extras that weren’t expected for the location.

While we missed Baird’s Sparrow and Sprague’s Pipit, we did get to see many other birds in the prairies of North Dakota.

While seeing a lot of mammalian wildlife, we still got to see some birds, though most of them were slightly outside the official Yellowstone park boundary.