Back to TX: Cattle Egret flocks

These are a few of my pics of birds in the Rio Grande Valley I took a few weeks ago. Though we see Cattle Egrets in Colorado, I don't u...

Red foxes engaged in mating behavior

I haven't posted for just over a week as I was driving home from Texas then, because I stayed right up to the last day I could, had lots...

Pine Flycatcher misidentification

Now is the time I am happy that I drove less than 20 miles out of my way to see the bird that turned out to be a different flycatcher from t...

NOT likely a Pine Flycatcher

1-10-09--the experts who identified the flycatcher in Choke Canyon as a first US record Pine Flycatcher posted yesterday that there was like...

Purple Sandpiper on So Padre Island

Today enjoyed a boat trip from So Padre Island to do a little birding with Fins To Feathers boat ecotours run by Scarlet and George Colley....

Cool spiders

This morning I birded Santa Ana National Wildlife Refuge. I have birded it a little this time but today I targetted the Groove-billed Ani, ...

The BAD--the border wall

This is it--the abomination that is fragmenting critical habitat in this rich biological region . All species will be harmed by this fragm...

More good: Green-legged heron

Though clearly not blue, this is a Little Blue Heron. Immature Little Blue Heron's have white feathers with bluish gray ends on their pr...

So Padre Island-the good, the bad & the ugly

Today I visited So Padre Island, a wonderful barrier island just off the south Texas coast. The "good" is the birds that are stil...

Another Llano Grande delight-American Bittern

Embedded in the reeds in this pic is the neck and head of an American Bittern. Actually the brown and white stripes formed by her feathers m...