I spent a little time at the playa north of Panhandle this week. It had been dry until the end of July but we had some nice rains and the farmers around it are watering the hell out of their corn and milo and now it has more water than I’ve seen in it for…
I saw a juvenile Peregrine Falcon earlier this week at the lake. It’s a first for me. Swainson’s Hawk. I can’t wait until the corn and milo harvest. The combines clear the fields and disturb the mice and voles and Swainson’s and Red-tailed Hawks follow the combines and feast. Cattle Egret. 60 or more of…
As hard as this may be to believe, I mis-IDed a bird! In my last post I IDed a tern as a Forster’s Tern. I see Forster’s terns here pretty regularly during migrations and I had seen a small flock of 6 or 8 the day before, not far from where I saw this pair…
We’ve had a surprisingly mild summer in the Texas Panhandle this year. The stretches of 38° C or hotter days have been pretty short, usually lasting less than a week and we’ve had several long periods of much milder and surprisingly wet weather. Birding around here this time of year is not terribly exciting, but…
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