Here’s a few pictures that I didn’t get around to posting from late April and the first part of May, before we took off for Missouri. All were photographed around Lake Meredith except for the Cedar Waxwing and the Red-tailed Hawk which was at Palo Duro Reservoir and the Dickcissels, White-faced Ibis, and Black-crowned Night-Heron…
While we were in southwestern Missouri visiting relatives a few weeks ago we took a day trip over to Grand Lake O’ the Cherokees in Northeastern Oklahoma. My brother took us around the lake on his boat, my mom fixed us a picnic lunch, and I took photos. Here’s a few of them. Spotted Sandpiper…
There’s been a long-billed Dowitcher at Spring Canyon for the last week. I see them during migrations every year, so it’s not an new bird for me but it is a pretty cool looking bird and it didn’t seem to mind me taking pictures of it as it grazed. It was a little overcast and…
The last few weeks have been pretty good ones for birding. The trip to Missouri added 8 lifers to my list and even though it’s been cloudy and rainy since we returned I was able to get out and add another -a Stilt Sandpiper, bringing my life list up to 235 birds. Almost as exciting…
Here’s another bird from the Missouri trip. We have Rock Wrens, Bewick’s Wrens, Marsh Wrens, Canyon Wrens, and occasionally House Wrens, but I’ve never seen a Carolina Wren around here.
Here’s another new lifer for me that I saw on our Missouri trip. Rose-breasted Grosbeaks are in the same family as cardinals and buntings, a rather colorful family of Passeriformes or perching birds. We have Painted Buntings here in the summer as well as Blue Grosbeaks. Black-headed Grosbeaks are fall and spring migrants through the…
We have Bullock’s and Orchard Orioles all summer, but Baltimore Oriole’s are migrants through the Texas panhandle and I’ve never seen one around here. I had to drive all the way to Missouri (over 700 km) to add one to my Life List.
This is my 300th blog post-quite a milestone, I guess. The first post was on Monday, February 5th, 2012, 1502 days ago. That works out to a bit over 1 post every 5 days, not the most prolific writer or photographer, maybe, but a pretty good pace for someone who has a job and a…
I took a drive Sunday morning out state highway 207 south of Borger to Carson County and came across a prairie dog town on county road 16. Nearly every prairie dog town has a few Burrowing Owls in residence and this one was no exception. I startled the owl when I got out of my…
A few more photos of shorebirds and waders from around the panhandle I have a lot of trouble telling these apart from the Greater Yellowlegs, but I believe this bird is a Lesser Yellowlegs. The larger, out-of-focus bird is a female Northern Shoveler Spotted Sandpiper White-faced Ibis Cattle Egret Killdeer Snowy Egret Wilson’s Phalarope, Lesser Yellowlegs,…
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