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…
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…
Here’s a few photographs from the last week or so. It’s not been too bad of a winter this year-no really bad storms or severe cold snaps, so far. I’ve seen some pretty deep snows around here in March, though, so I’m still not putting up my long johns. Here’s a few photos from the…
I haven’t posted in a few weeks so I thought I’d catch up with a pretty large photo dump. I’ve been birding quite a lot but for some reason can’t seem to bring myself to do the drudge work of editing and posting. Meredith is up over 64 feet for the first time in nearly…
I’ve been pretty busy at work the last month or so and haven’t posted much. I have been birding, though and so here are a few photos. The best areas for birding in the last month or so have been the farms and pastures north and south of us. The playa lakes are full and…
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…
Ladder-backed Woodpeckers are one of the most common year-round woodpeckers in this area (Northern Flickers are another very common species, especially in the winter.) I see at least one nearly every time I go birding. They are small black and white striped birds that are very quick as they search for insects among the mesquites…
I love being out at the lake early in the morning before anyone else gets out there. I wish my photos did justice to the beauty of these frosty mornings. Bufflehead Western Meadowlark American Coot Northern Flicker (Red-shafted)
Birding is always fun, even more so when the seasons start changing. I saw my first warblers of the year yesterday, a couple of Yellow-rumped Warblers. One was a Myrtle subspecies and the other was an Audubon’s. Both are males, I think, but the Audubon’s may be female-the yellow stripe on the top of its head…
Here’s a few more photos from the last 5 or 6 weeks of 2013. I failed my resolve to post more often. I could cite a number of reasons but they would just be rationalizations. Basically, I’m just lazy and there are too many things to do instead of this. I go out birding…
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