As regular CFZ-watchers will know, for some time Corinna has been doing a column for Animals & Men and a regular segment on On The Track... particularly about out-of-place birds and rare vagrants. There seem to be more and more bird stories from all over the world hitting the news these days so, to make room for them all - and to give them all equal and worthy coverage - she has set up this new blog to cover all things feathery and Fortean.

Tuesday 12 August 2014

HUMMINGBIRD HAVEN SAVED: Tucson Audubon keeping Paton's open for bird watchers

Posted: Sunday, August 3, 2014 12:00 am

By Cathy Rosenberg Arizona Sonora News Service

Paton’s Birder Haven in Patagonia, Ariz., is a prime destination for bird watchers from all over the world. About 30,000 people come here each year to see the birds.

Wally and Marion Paton first invited bird watchers into their backyard in the 1990s after they saw people in the street with binoculars looking in. When the Patons died, there was no plan for the future.

“It became internationally known because of particularly one species,” said Paul Green, president of the Tucson Audubon Society. “It’s really the only place in the United States that you can reliably see the Violet-crowned hummingbird.”

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