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Success!! Exactly As dreamed!!

Success!! Exactly As dreamed!!

Eric and I made a little side trip to the Rio Grande Valley to get the most common bird neither of us had on our life lists for Texas. Anyone want to ID Mr Scruffy here?
A few sparrows from recent trip to Fort Davis area. 16 Sparrow species for the trip. No luck on the Baird’s despite many hours of walking the roads. The quest continues!!! I find the Lark Bunting to be so photogenic!! My favorite sparrow.
I spent the last week in Davis Mountains. Here’s a few locals. Having heard of 88 mountain plovers near San Angelo, I detoured that direction on the way home and found about a dozen on a cold and rainy morning. Nice turf farm there on Susan Peak road. See map below if you want to…
Allan and I had distant looks at lawn ornaments in Port Aransas yesterday.
Good discussion, but not sure I’m buying their methodology. Patagonia Picnic Table Effect
Eric, Lance and I led the Shorebird Class to Corpus over the last weekend. I had a great time with highlights for me being: “That’s him!!!” (IDing the long-staying Glaucous Gull in mid-air at 65 mph on the JFK causeway), Identifying grass-pipers at the sod farms with the class at about ½ mile distant (definitely…