Last week I made the hour-long drive up into Hansford County to Palo Duro Lake North of Spearman. It was cloudy and taking photos was difficult, but I did get a few decent photos of some of the birds I saw there. There are about one hundred Double-crested Cormorants nesting there. Here’s a few of…
I have got to be one of the most inconsistent bloggers around. My last post was nearly 6 weeks ago. I go out birding nearly every day and I take a lot of photographs, it just seems too much trouble to get around to processing photos and posting Them, I have promised in the past…
Well, it’s a few days past the mid-point of summer and birding has been a bit slow around here. There are still lots of birds around, but it is either too early or too late for migration so I haven’t seen anything different for several weeks. Also, mating season is winding down, so the males…
Bald Eagles have been pretty scarce around Lake Meredith the last few years. I’ve not seen one out there this year at all and only had a couple of sightings last year, whereas a few years ago I counted a dozen or more adults and juveniles every day between November and May. I suppose it…
Here’s a few birds I saw while hiking at Palo Duro Lake Last week. Bullock’s Oriole Scissor-tailed Flycatcher Western Kingbird Western Meadowlark Mississippi Kite American Kestrel I drove north from the lake nearly to Oklahoma trying to find the nest of a pair of Bald Eagles I had seen last week when I visited the lake. I…
I got up early this morning and drove up to Palo Duro Reservoir north of Spearman. The morning was overcast and pretty dark so the pictures weren’t as good as I had hoped, but I did get to see some of the few Bald Eagles I’ve seen in the panhandle this year. We usually have…
Song Sparrow in a mesquite bush Ruby-crowned Kinglet Pied-billed Grebe Loggerhead Shrike Canvasback Bald Eagle and Ring-billed Gulls American Robin
Finally, the sun is out on a day that I’m off work, not exhausted, and have no pressing personal obligations. There have been very few sunny days for the last month. Mostly they’ve been so depressingly dark and colorless that I could barely make myself crawl out of bed. I did go birding on a…
I took a drive up to Palo Duro Lake in Hansford County this morning after I got off work. It’s a nice drive and I get most of the world’s problems solved by the time I get there. Then I get distracted by the birds and forget the details of my world saving plan. Oh,…
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