The Big Yard: Birdwatching in a Time of Quarantine

Or: The Evolution of a Lister

A tiny yellow bird draws hundreds of people to southeast Arizona

Day 55 of the Quarantine (May 7, 2020)

My dust plume settles over one of my favorite places, West Turkey Creek in the Chiricahua Mountains, 70 miles from my front door.  Listers are all atwitter about sightings of several crescent-chested warblers, a rare migrant from the mountai…