The birding community in the Texas Panhandle has been all a-twitter this week over the sighting of a Pacific Loon in a small pond at Southeastern Park in Amarillo. Look at a range map and you’ll see why everyone is so excited. It is an immature bird and not nearly as colorful as an adult…
Well, it’s been an incredibly long time since I’ve posted anything. There are lots of reasons, none of them really very good. I think the main reason is that I’ve lost my will to go through all the photos I take and weed out the crap and then clean up the ones left. Another reason…
Here’s a few more photos I took while birding last week. Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Cattle Egret Red-winged Blackbird Dickcissel
A friend and fellow birder found these Cactus Wrens on Plum Creek Road in southwestern Moore County. I went out there this morning after I got off work and managed to find them, thanks to his excellent directions. Cactus Wrens aren’t normally found in the area and actually, until my friend reported them on Saturday,…
Here’s a series of photographs of an immature Common Loon that’s been hanging out at Lake Meredith’s Spring Canyon this week. He’s all alone but that doesn’t stop him from practicing displaying. It’s a little unusual to see them this late in the spring.
May in the Texas Panhandle is a great time for birders. The summer residents are arriving and there are still a lot of migrants passing through. Here’s a few photos of some of the birds I came across around Hutchinson County last Month. Burrowing Owl Red=winged Blackbird male and female Wilson’s Phalarope Three American Avocets…
Great Blue Heron at Spring Canyon, Lake Meredith Redheads and Ruddy Ducks Brewer’s Blackbird American Pipit at Cedar Canyon Belted Kingfisher on a foggy morning at Cedar Canyon Great Blue Heron
I saw this Green Heron at Spring Canyon a few days ago. They are migrants through here each fall and spring. They aren’t very big, only about a foot and a half tall with their neck stretched out and they weigh about half a pound. This one was preening, although he did make a grab…
I’m starting to see a few birds migrating through, now. Not a lot, but a few. The trade-off is that a lot of the summer birds have already left and I miss them. I haven’t seen any kites for a week or more, same with the buntings and grosbeaks. Time marches relentlessly onward. I went…
The last two summers have been beautiful, especially when compared to summers over the last decade or so. We had gotten used to days and weeks of temperatures over 100 degrees, dry, brown grass and trees, very little rain, devastating grass fires, and dry, hot southwest winds. There have only been a few days in…
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