Hot Tub Birding
After birding in the wind and rain most of the day, watching this Merlin eat his meal in the hot tub at Mary’s (us in the hot tub, not the merlin) was quite copacetic!!!


After birding in the wind and rain most of the day, watching this Merlin eat his meal in the hot tub at Mary’s (us in the hot tub, not the merlin) was quite copacetic!!!


On September 26 this bird was somewhere in Oklahoma. On October 1 I’m pretty sure i saw the same bird in Alvarado Texas. Heading south!! (I didn’t get a pix though)
Thanks to my buddy Eric who found some warbler butts before I could!! The following and more can be found at the website for The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle. This is an excellent and innovative book!!
Just posted the following in Real Texbirds group. Willie Sekula thinks he had Black Swift in Corpus Christie yesterday. (Note: a Chimney Swift is pictured). jep I wasn’t going to mention it due to no photographic evidence. But a friend pointed me to Willie sekulas post. 30 minutes ago I had a flyover view of…
One of our recent birds at “The Land” in the Davis mountains.
I enjoyed Cin Ty Lee’s presentation on Empids at TOS!! He’s got some good material on his website: http://www.cintylee.org/#/guiding-services/ I also notice that Butter Butt’s are scarfing down crushed pecans in the street in several locations.
They might know a thing or two about birds, but they stole our title!!— Cornell