Brown Booby
Also took me about 30 seconds to add this Brown Booby in Aggieland a couple of weeks ago to my Texas list. Only bird on the lake.
Same trip as the Limpkin, I was on a roll!!! 60 seconds of birding and added 2.

Also took me about 30 seconds to add this Brown Booby in Aggieland a couple of weeks ago to my Texas list. Only bird on the lake.
Same trip as the Limpkin, I was on a roll!!! 60 seconds of birding and added 2.

Hearing tell of a Short-billed Gull at White Rock Lake, Lance and I conducted a stake-out this morning for a couple of hours. No luck on Shorty, but always a pleasure to study gulls — especially since I added two first of season gulls to my season list. (I forgot my camera in Austin so…
Bat Falcon — That’s him on top of the telephone pole just left of the water tower. Got him after about 15 micro-seconds of very dedicated and difficult searching. We saw the Social Flycatcher too, but all my pix (from the scrum) were of Kiss-Katies.
Here’s a good one. At Hornsby now if any want to come down.
This dude was apparently briefly in Texas. NPR Article
Here are the gulls we did see. Can you ID without your book?