This Week

It’s been over a week since I posted anything here and that’s too long.  There are several reasons; I had a rough week at work for one (over 70 hard hours in 4 days,)  helped my daughter move from one upstairs apartment to another upstairs apartment, and day long RAC meetings (an EMS thing,) but…

Cattle Egrets and Song Sparrows

They’ve been paving roads and parking lots all over Meredith the past few weeks and seem to have scared off all the birds.  About the only place I’ve seen anything was on the south end of the lake and it’s a bit hard to get to.  I saw about 60 American Avocets (here’s one group) mixed…

Swainson’s Hawk

I drove up to Palo Duro Reservoir this morning.  It’s a small man-made lake in Hansford County about an hour from my house that has great birding.  It’s fairly shallow and has a lot a dead cottonwood trees sticking up out of the water.  There always seems to be lots of Double-crested Cormorants and Turkey…

Missing the Mississippi Kites

I haven’t seen any Mississippi Kites in the last week and I miss them already.  Mississippi Kites spend summers and breed in most of the southern US from Arizona to the Carolinas and Texas, especially West and North Texas and the Panhandle get their share.  They winter as far south as Central South America.  Mississippi…