I spent a lot of time last summer and fall at Johnson Park in Borger. I went there because it was close to work if I got paged in, and because of the Mississippi Kites. The park is at the head of a creek that drains the center and eastern edge of Borger. There’s a…
What a week! The weather’s been cold and wet and windy since Monday. We certainly needed the rain and I really don’t expect it to be warm this early in the year (although it hit 90°F last week,) but I could do without the wind. On top of that I had to go to Amarillo…
Winter has less than a week to go and it’s been a mild one in Hutchinson County for the most part. There was a week or two in December that was really cold and a couple of small snowfalls in January. February and early March were very windy-there were several days of 60+mph winds. There…
Around the end of October last year I noticed two large, white birds on a sandbar where Blue Creek (when it has water, which is rarely) empties into Meredith. I was on top of the cliffs at Fritch Fortress so I took a look through a spotting scope and they were obviously pelicans, even…
Spring is nearly here. I’ve noticed a faint greenish hue to the prairie as I drive around and the birds have started courting. Yesterday I saw turkey toms struttin’ their stuff, the American Goldfinches at the feeder are starting to glow, the House Finches are so red they seem ready to combust, and today I…
Jim’s Lake is a private pond in southeastern Hutchinson County about 10 miles east of Borger. I had talked to the owner a few weeks ago about taking pictures and today I finally got a chance to get out there. I had seen a post on ebird in January that listed a dozen or more…
It’s a beautiful day in Hutchinson county, near 7o°F, sunny, and as close to windless as it gets around here. Earlier I went out to Fritch Fortress to see if the Bald Eagles were still around–in the last post I had mentioned that I hadn’t seen them. They were there today. I guess the winds…
The weather in Hutchinson County has been particularly ugly for the past week. The Monday we came back from the coast was very windy–there were gusts up to 60 miles an hour. The dust was so bad that there was a multi-car pileup on 287 north of Childress that closed both the north and southbound…
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