Shorebirds Class Field Trip 2022
I came up with 113 species on Corpus FT (for my personal list).
Blucher Park Empid
Anybody want to ID this Empid Seen in Blucher Park yesterday?
Shorebird Class Field Trip to Corpus 2022
What a great trip to the coast with the 2022 TAS Shorebird Class!!! Highlights for me were the Aplomado falcons and Elegant Tern (life bird!!), as well as the good company of bird nerds !!
Shorebirds at Hornsby
Of the 39 species we cover in class, I’ve seen 22 at Hornsby in about the past month. The only thing I think I’ve missed was Black-bellied Plover. The only other things that might have been reasonable at Hornsby over that time are Willet, Short-billed Dow and maybe, maybe a Dunlin. Of course I was…
Texas Pelagics
It’s an adventure! Texas Pelagics website
Migrating Birds
I believe these are birds taking off at dusk to migrate
Phalarope Feeding Technique
I showed my friend Kelly the phalarope feeding technique using surface tension and he showed me the old drafting ruling pens using the same principle. So naturally we had to try it ourselves!!
Thermal Imaging
This is pretty cool!! From Nocturnal Flight Calls FB Group. Video on Youtube
Pupfish Pecos River
On return from Davis mnts today I made my regular stop at the pecos river on the outskirts of Iraan (that’s “Ira — Anne”). There I found a Least Flycatcher and a low altitude Uppy flyby. But what really JAZZED ME!! was the apparently healthy population of minnows and I believe Pecos Pupfish (will be…