High Island Prep
Trying to get a mental handle on timing of warbler migration in Texas.
So, naturally, I put together a spreadsheet
! From Ebird data.
Send me an email if you want a PDF of the graphs, comparisons (eg. the 2 waterthresh) and etc.

Trying to get a mental handle on timing of warbler migration in Texas.
So, naturally, I put together a spreadsheet
! From Ebird data.
Send me an email if you want a PDF of the graphs, comparisons (eg. the 2 waterthresh) and etc.

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…
The TBRC is pleased to announce that both Steller’s Sea-Eagle and Limpkin have been added to the official State List, bringing it to 657! The Steller’s Sea-Eagle is perhaps one of the more unexpected addition in recent years, with an adult bird seen and photographed by Kris & Jeff Groscop and Gene & Sandi Roesler…
Did you ever wonder why it’s called “double-crested”?
I finally got one!! Two actually, an apparently mated pair. Give me an ID before I give you the location.
Regretfully we were a little short on SHORE for he shorebirds class field trip to corpus over the weekend. But I think we enjoyed it none the less and ended up with around 20 shorebird species!! Highlights for me were seeing a Cassin’s Kingbird at Blucher park, more Red Knots than I’ve ever seen ~20,…
Several places on the Gulls Field trip we had very large numbers of birds. Here’s only 1/2 of a huge flight of cormorants that flew by us on the Texas city Dike. Anybody volunteer to count them?