Here’s a few photos from the first 3 weeks of Spring. Northern Cardinal at Palo Duro Canyon. Pine Siskin at my feeders Canada Geese at Spring Canyon, Lake Meredith. Northern Pintail and Blue-winged Teal at Spring Canyon, Lake Meredith. Northern Pintail, Redheads at Spring Canyon, Lake Meredith. Northern Shoveler…
The southwestern end of lake Meredith was crawling with Western and Clark’s Grebes this morning. I took advantage of the beautiful weather and got the kayak out early and mad a 9-mile circuit around the SW part of the lake. It is only the second time I’ve had a chance to get out on the…
Well, once again I’ve managed to not post anything for several months. My only excuse it laziness-I go birding nearly every morning that I’m not working, but processing photos is really a pain in the ass and so I let it build up until it is really daunting. It has really not been all that…
Once again I have neglected this blog for way too long, and as usual I have no real excuse. I have been doing a lot of birding this summer, nearly daily in fact, with time off on the weekends to go to work. I just haven’t taken a lot of photos. All of what I’m…
OK, I admit it, I’m not doing a very good job at keeping this blog up to date. It’s just that, well, it’s summer, you know. And not just summer, but one of the nicest summers we’ve had in a while. Summers over the last decade or so have been miserable affairs. They’ve been hot…
Here’s another bird from my tours of the farmlands around the northern Texas Panhandle-a Horned Lark.
Earlier this week we had 4 inches of rain fall in about 30 hours and some of the playa lakes in the area that have been dry for over a year finally have a little water in them. It didn’t take the birds long to find them and I was able to get some nice photos,…
I took a few photos at Spring Canyon this morning-nothing too exciting, not like a Sedge Wren or anything, but some nice photos at any rate. The weather was overcast and kind of windy, but it is the Texas Panhandle and wind is always expected and we never complain about clouds (well, actually, I do,…
Every time I think I’m getting pretty good at this birding stuff, someone comes along and takes me down a few pegs. This week it happened twice. The first was an email from an ebird rep wanting more information on a sighting I had earlier this month. I reported an American Tree Sparrow and he…
I saw a pair of Great Horned Owls this morning at Spring Canyon, the first I’ve seen since last spring. They were in a tree at the bottom of the hill as you enter the canyon. There have been other sightings this year by other birders in different areas of the lake, and I’m sure…
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