Colorful female Painted Bunting

This female Painted Bunting was foraging in the same location as the male pictured in the post below. Though her plumage is not as brillian...

Gorgeous Painted Bunting

I found this male Painted Bunting at Santa Ana NWR today. These guys are one of the brightest and most colorful landbirds that we see in th...

Common Yellowthroat with different song

As I walked on the "wetland bridge" walkway over the currently dry marsh area, I heard a song I with which I was unfamiliar. I wa...

Brilliant Blackburnian Warbler

Brilliant,brilliant,brilliant--that is the most descriptive word for male Blackburnian Warblers. Their orange heads are so very bright and ...

Chestnut-sided Warbler at Sabal Palm

Hopefully the gremlins that took over my laptop the past few days (no,not a virus) are gone so I can post more pics from my trip like these....

Quite a find--a Worm-eating Warbler

I have been enjoying not only Rio Grande Valley specialities but some migrating warblers these past 4 days. Today I birded Quinta Mazatlan,...

Quinta Mazatlan Canada Warbler

I found this male Canada Warbler working mid-canopy during it's migration stop-over in the trees at Quinta Mazatlan. The top pic shows ...

So Texas & Crested Caracaras

Though I saw a few Crested Caracaras in the Uvalde area (at the edge of Texas Hill/River Country & the beginning of South Texas), the nu...

Best bird--Golden-cheekedWarbler

This bird will likely be the best bird of the trip because the Golden-cheeked Warbler is an Endangered Species and listed as 'one of the...

Neal's Lodges on the Frio River

I had arranged to meet Bob Rasa, who leads tours around the famous Neal's Lodges on the Frio River in Concan, TX. Bob graciously offere...

Black-belliedWhistlingDucks

I was surprised to see these (and several other small groups totaling around 20) Black-bellied Whistling Ducks flying over Lake Nasworthy in...

Skulking wren

This Marsh Wren was behaving like Marsh Wrens do, skulking in the vegetation. This one was not technically in a marsh but rather in the ree...

Scissor-tailed Flycatchers

I got to San Angelo,TX in time to get in an hour or so of birding at the Lake Nasworthy area on the west side of town. San Angelo is one of...

Bright Yellow-headed Blackbird

While birding in the lower Arkansas Valley of Colo yesterday I stopped at the Ordway Reservoir, a small fishing area where Yellow-headed Bla...

Nesting Bald Eagle & attentive mate

I have been monitoring this nesting female and have often seen her mate nearby. Last year their nest and nest tree was destroyed in severe ...

Very bad times for Whooping Cranes in central flyway

I have extracted salient portions of the annual crane season at Aransas NWR in Texas: "The tenth aerial census of the 2008-09 crane sea...

Great Blue Herons engaged in breeding

Though I have continued taking some good bird pics, I have wanted to move to a higher level with a high quality and longer telephoto zoom. ...

More Greater Sage-Grouse video

I found that the researcher, Dr. Gail Patricelli, has a whole utube site for her labs videos of Greater Sage-Grouse. Below is one of their ...

Bird's eye view of life-at-the-lek

There is a cool research program in Wyoming using a robot version of a female Greater Sage Grouse to study mating behavior. This is most un...