I made it out to Spring Canyon this morning a little after sunrise and was rewarded with these pictures of a Green Heron. The water reflects the background in the early light, green around the cattails, golden from dry grass, copper from the red clay bluffs, and silver from the concrete of the spillway. The…
I’m starting to see some migrating waterfowl on Meredith, but the real hotspot right now is the playa lake near Panhandle in Carson County. Runoff from an irrigated cornfield nearby has provided a paradise for the migrating birds. Sunday evening there was at least 300 birds there including Blue and Green-winged Teal, Northern Pintails, Northern…
I mentioned in a post earlier this week that birding in Hutchinson County had been a little slow of late, so this morning Sheila and I drove up through the northeastern panhandle. First stop was Palo Duro Reservoir in Hansford Co. The Lake was loaded with Double-crested Cormorants roosting in the dead trees in the…
The weather has been great this week in Hutchinson County. Temperatures have dropped from upper 90s and low 100’s to 70s and 80s and it rained an inch or more over the last week. Unfortunately we are still at about half our normal precipitation for the year so far. My first photos from Lake Meredith…
I’m sure most birders that use eBird have received some version of this email: “I am a regional data reviewer for eBird. My goal is to keep up with data submissions and try to ensure the accuracy of reports of rare and unusual species, as well as unusually high counts of common species. Can you please…
I hadn’t been out to the Playa Lake near Panhandle in Carson County for a while. It’s been pretty dry since early June and the last time I was by there it had dried up completely. We had a couple of nice rains last week so I decided to drive down to Carson County Sunday…
Birding in Hutchinson County has been a little slow the last week or two, so today I drove north to Palo Duro Reservoir in Hansford County, about an hour’s drive from my home. The reservoir was created by a dam across Palo Duro Creek. It isn’t part of the much larger Palo Duro Canyon that…
We were treated to another cloudy, cool morning today. Still no rain but the humidity was up a little. Went to Fritch Fortress and parked at the end of the boat ramp (the end that should be under water, but isn’t) and walked around to Cedar Canyon. On the way back I photographed this Great…
We were treated to a cool front last night, a much needed break from the panhandle heat. It rained all around us but we only got a few sprinkles. I went walking this morning at the City Park and took these photos of some Blue Jays that were fussing with each other. There were 6…
My persistence (bird-bothering, stalking) has paid off. I mention in a post a few weeks ago that I had heard birds calling in the weeds at Cedar Canyon that I thought might be Dickcissels, and indeed they were. They aren’t uncommon in this area and there has been an outbreak this year all over the Eastern half…
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