I drove up to Palo Duro Reservoir in Hansford County yesterday for a change of pace. I’ve been hitting the same spots around Hutchinson County for a while and I was getting a little bored with the same places. Palo Duro is about an hour’s drive northeast of where I live and is formed by…
A few photos of the birds I’ve seen this week. Ring-necked Duck female. I’m not sure why she’s hanging around here, I’ve seen her several times in the last month. Ruddy Duck Red-winged Blackbird Ash-throated Flycatcher Ladder-backed Woodpecker Blue Grosbeak Greater Roadrunner with breakfast. Orchard Oriole female American White Pelican Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Red-tailed Hawk.. If…
Red-tailed Hawks are pretty common, living year-round throughout the U.S. and ranging in the summer up into northern Canada and Alaska and in the winter down into Central America. If you see a hawk, chances are pretty good that it’s a Red-tailed. We have other species of hawks around here also, Swainson’s in the summer…
Wandered a bit this week, spending Monday morning at McGee Lake in Potter Co., and this morning at Palo Duro Reservoir in Hansford Co. I didn’t see anything too unusual in my travels, but I did get some nice photos. McGee Lake may be the only playa in the panhandle with water. Most of it…
Along with the Lingering Ducks and Shorebirds the last few weeks there has been an infusion of songbirds. Leaves are finally out in spite of late frosts and drought, and there are green shoots rising through last year’s dead cattail beds at Spring Canyon, but the grass is still dormant everywhere except in well-watered lawns.…
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