I’ve decided to change the name of the blog. If you read the earlier post entitled What’s in a Name?, you know that the original name was just a place-holder until I decided on a proper name for a birding blog. When Sheila and I were at Rockport I saw a Mallard Hybrid that stuck…
On a beautiful, crisp November morning I drove to the cliffs at Lake Meredith’s Fritch Fortress. I had the 300mm lens on the camera. I walked down a pathway along the edge of the cliff scanning the water with the binoculars looking for migrant waterfowl. I come to this area 4 or 5 times a…
We got back home from our trip to the Texas coast last night and I spent most of the evening sorting through the pictures. We were gone for 82 hours, drove 1611 miles through torrential rain and 60+ mph windstorms, and I added 19 birds to my life list. I have mixed feelings about the…
Just in case anyone is interested I listed my 81st species today, a Canvasback. I also was able to get a pretty nice shot, finally, of the Belted Kingfisher that is wintering at the `Stillin’ Basin at Spring Canyon. I didn’t know it, but there are categories of birdwatchers, or birders. Birdwatchers pursue the hobby…
I carried the EasyShare around for a few weeks and became increasingly frustrated with it. The zoom was OK but the auto focus was very slow and there was no way to focus it manually. I started looking for a better camera and in mid-July bought a Canon EOS Rebel T3–still not a pro camera…
The last installment of my birding genesis story, Try Again, (which was a recap and continuation of The Mythical Post) ended with me sitting in the yard swing drinking coffee in the mornings and beer in the evenings while watching the birds at the feeders. I began taking pictures of the birds with my daughter’s…
“Just one look at you and I know it’s gonna be a lovely day.”– Lovely Day from the Bill Withers recording Menagerie. I slept in this morning. I was afraid the roads at the lake would be iced over if I got out there too early. I usually leave just at dawn so I can…
“Having been some days in preparation A splendid time is guaranteed for all.”–Being for the Benefit of Mr. Kite from The Beatles’ recording Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. Another snowy, cold day in Hutchinson Co. I spent a good part of the last 48 hours at work and so haven’t posted since Thursday. I…
“we’re all just perfect strangers as long as we ignore that we all begin as strangers just before we find we really aren’t strangers anymore.” – Tom Waits I Never Talk to Strangers from the recording Foreign Affairs. There’s a thing or two about blogging that I did not think would be as hard as…
It snowed this morning–not a lot, maybe and inch or so, but it is the first time since mid-December that we’ve gotten more than a few flurries. I was watching the feeders from the front door and the finches and sparrows were going at it like Bluto and Marmalard. There had to have been 60…
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