I hadn’t been out of Hutchinson Co. much this year-a couple of trips to McBride Canyon in Potter Co. and one to Palo Duro Reservoir up in Hansford Co, and I was getting a bit bored seeing the same old places and birds, so I took a trip down to Randall County’s Palo Duro Canyon…
Song Sparrow in a mesquite bush Ruby-crowned Kinglet Pied-billed Grebe Loggerhead Shrike Canvasback Bald Eagle and Ring-billed Gulls American Robin
Ladder-backed Woodpeckers are one of the most common year-round woodpeckers in this area (Northern Flickers are another very common species, especially in the winter.) I see at least one nearly every time I go birding. They are small black and white striped birds that are very quick as they search for insects among the mesquites…
I’v been terribly lazy about posting for the last month. I can think of excuses–weather, work, lack of photo ops, and more except I’m too lazy to work on it. I have been birding, although work and weather have curtailed the outings some. This has been a very underwhelming winter, bird-wise so far this year.…
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