I drove out to the former playa north of the town of Panhandle last week and came upon a field of Dickcissels. I was able to accurately count 14 o them, but there may have been more- hard to tell when they are flitting around in tall grass.
A friend and fellow birder told me that he had seen quite a few Blue-gray Gnatcatchers at Lake Meredith’s McBride Canyon yesterday, so I went out there this morning to see if I could get a few pictures of them. BGGNs are notoriously difficult to photograph, at least for me-they are pretty small and very…
Common Yellowthroats are summer residents at Lake Meredith. They arrive in late April and early May and set up shop in the cattails at Spring Canyon and on the southwestern end of the lake. You can hear them singing throughout the last half of spring and most of the summer, but I rarely get a…
Here’s yet another post to try to catch up a little. I go birding almost daily, missing 2 or 3 days a week because of work and I usually take pictures. I’m not a very good photographer and rely mostly on luck and take hundreds of pictures each day, hoping that there will be a…
American White Pelicans are actually (much to my surprise 6 years ago when I first started birding) quite common migrants through the Texas panhandle each spring and autumn and I get a lot of chances to photograph them. Back when the lake was nearly empty you could photograph them from Fritch Fortress quite easily. Now…
There was a pair of Black-necked Stilts at Spring Canyon yesterday morning. It’s why I get up so early.
I finally was able to get the kayak out yesterday-April had been a terrible month for yakking, the worst of the year so far. Between cold, rain, snow, wind and work I hadn’t been able to get the boat out in over 3 weeks, so yesterday I did and it was a beautiful afternoon for…
Here’s a few photos from April that I just never got around to posting. Curve-billed Thrasher at Palo Duro Canyon Chihuahuan Ravens at McBride Canyon, Lake Meredith Northern Rough-winged Swallow at Spring Canyon, Lake Meredith Morning Dove, Spring Canyon Savannah Sparrow, Spring Canyon Yellow-headed Blackbirds Spring Canyon American Avocets coming in for a landing.…
Texas’ state bird at Palo Duro Canyon State Park.
I came across this male Eared Grebe at Lake Meredith’s Spring Canyon last week while birding with a friend of mine. I’ve been between 1 and 3 of these birds out there for the last couple of weeks, but this is the first one wearing his breeding plumage. Every girl crazy `bout a “Sharp Dressed…
