Recent Posts Tagged With 'texas'

• Birding with Alligators

  Posted on Thursday March 12th, 2009 at 06:53 in travel, texas, southern, birding, wetlands, birdwatching, alligators, brazos bend state park, alligator etiquette

  I live in the northeast where there are, thankfully, no alligators (NYC sewer gators, notwithstanding) so when I come across them in my travels they always freak me out a little; it’s all that nature programming that shows them running with bur...

• Bird Photography Weekly - Sora

  Posted on Monday March 2nd, 2009 at 08:54 in travel, texas, sora, san bernard nwr, polluela sora, porzana carolina, rascón

  It always feels so special to see a rail.  But unlike many of them, this Sora was totally brazen; walking across open water in full view to get from grassy clump to grassy clump.  When it disappeared into the reeds and did not emerge, I drove on, o...

• Bird Photography Weekly - Least Grebe

  Posted on Monday February 23rd, 2009 at 06:52 in travel, texas, photos, least grebe, san bernard nwr, tachybaptus dominicus, zambullidor menor

  Meet Life Bird #612. This is one of the Least Grebes that was hanging around the San Bernard National Wildlife Refuge.  I saw it on the auto loop around Moccasin Pond. Look at that orange eye. ...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Thursday February 19th, 2009 at 14:54 in texas, photos, bird, coastal, black bird, boat-tailed grackle, quiscalus major

  Look at that tail!  Let’s see–at the beach, in Texas, long wonky tail, must be a Boat-tailed Grackle.  I can usually tell the difference between the Boat-tailed and Great-tailed Grackle not by size, and the tail of a Great-tailed Grackl...

• Birding San Bernard NWR

  Posted on Wednesday February 18th, 2009 at 14:01 in travel, texas, birding, birdwatching, san bernard national wildlife refuge

  Do you read Birding on the Net regional lists before you travel?  I do.  A few weeks before the trip I started to see reports on TexBirds of a Least Grebe at San Bernard NWR.  Although I had seen this bird in Costa Rica, I did not have it on my...

• Birding Sam Houston National Forest

  Posted on Tuesday February 17th, 2009 at 19:04 in texas, birding, red-cockaded woodpecker, sam houston national forest

  Years ago I met some birders at King Ranch who were extending their Texas trip to drive north and try to see the endangered Red-cockaded Woodpeckers.  Up to that point, I thought they were over in the Carolinas and other southern states; apparently...

• Bird Photography Weekly

  Posted on Tuesday January 20th, 2009 at 06:30 in travel, texas, photos, brown pelican, pelecanus occidentalis, pelícano pardo

  Since I am heading to Houston for a conference in mid-Feb; I’m thinking of going down a few days early to do a little birding.  Do you have a favortite spot on the upper Texas Coast? I have been to Anahuac and plan on going there again.  I mi...

• Thanksgiving Turkey Special

  Posted on Thursday November 27th, 2008 at 03:47 in travel, texas, photos, Turkey, us, wild, thanksgiving, nj, az, subspecies, local schmocal, meleagris gallopavo

  All Turkeys are not the same.  According to Clements Checklist of Birds of the World, there are 6 subspecies of Wild Turkey; 4 of them in the US, the other 2 in Mexico.  I have only seen 3 of the US ones. Meleagris gallopavo merriami — the W...

• Skywatch

  Posted on Friday September 12th, 2008 at 04:11 in texas, bird, Carnival, favorite, scissor-tailed flycatcher, wire, skywatch, birdwatching, mosquero, tirano-tijereta rosasdo, tyrannus forficatus

  I was with friends the other day and we were talking about if you were a bird which one would you be.   There were lots of interesting answers from hawks (of course) to a vulture (you can’t be serious!) to eagles (hmmm, yes but have you hear...

• Sabal Palm Sanctuary Needs our Help

  Posted on Monday May 5th, 2008 at 19:51 in texas, migration, birds, birding, audubon, petition, birders, sabal palm sanctuary

  Located at the tip of Texas, close to the border with Mexico and south of Brownsville, believe it or not, the Sabal Palm Sanctuary is owned and maintained by the National Audubon Society. It protects a small relict stand of the palms that once lined...