North American Flycatchers
Another great effort by Lee & Birch!!! Concise, pointed, and beautifully illustrated!!!

Another great effort by Lee & Birch!!! Concise, pointed, and beautifully illustrated!!!

I strongly recommend this very good book to any naturalists of CetnTex!!! Concise, pointed, easy read and just enough of the subject to bolster your cocktail party repartee’!!! We are reading it outloud to each other. It’s the heir to the classic “Adventures with a Texas Naturalist” by Roy Bedichek Thanks to Kitty Coley for…
Here’s a reminder for Eastern Empids. Any one want to reevaluate the Empid I had at Dacha?
Who am I?
ID bird 2
Here’s an Empid (and friends) we had on field trip today. Maybe someone else can post the other flycatcher (which I neglected to get pix of).
On Saturday Lance, Jane Tillman and I chased the much visited Gray Kingbird in Houston. Here’s a few pix. I was most impressed with the BILL!! When we arrived there were several kingbirds present and I thought: “is that it?…..is that it?” but once you see that great honkin bill….case closed!!! We also picked up…