Patagonia Picnic Table Effect
Good discussion, but not sure I’m buying their methodology. Patagonia Picnic Table Effect
Owl ?
Ok, here’s where birding gets tantalizing (?) frustrating (?)…….again!! We were just out on a snow walk in garland near a wooded creek. I heard an owl. I heard it twice give 3 note, medium pitched hoots — lower pitched than Saw Whet, and Northern pygmy, higher pitched than Long eared — not screech, not…
Gull Crazy
They say you have to be crazy to get into gulls……………I didn’t last long, so still mostly sane!
Gulls Lake Ray Hubbard
Well I’ve been out gulling most days this week. Staying at my sister’s who lives near a favorite gull location on Lake Ray Hubbard. I’ve been looking for, and thought I’d found, variously Iceland gull (Thayers), California Gull, and today a great black backed gull. After review of bad digiscoped-through-the-fog-in-the-chill-breeze pix and videos and consultation…
Know your Birdsong
It pays to know your birdsong!! Thanks for sending Flo!! https://www.theguardian.com/…/ecuador-bird-fake-video… Maybe they’ll ask me to identify grackles for the impeachment hearings.
Greg Lasley
If you want to understand better how to be a great naturalist, you can find no better example than Greg Lasley. I only met him once, but he was a good friend of my grandfather’s, so I had heard of him by the late 70s. When I met him in 2008 he recited my grandfather’s…
TOS Bulletin
TOS Bulletin is out. Here’s the contents. Birds of Victoria and Egg collecting in Texas look especially interesting.
Sparrowfest 2021
Covid sparrowfest amigos
B3 New Students
We gained 3 new students to B3 recently: please welcome Danette Ray, Sarah Womack and Sharon Oprsal Richardson to our B3 journey of discovery!!! Let’s give em a round of applause !!
Sparrowfest 2021
I believe virtual sparrow fest is free this year. https://www.friendsofbalcones.org/event-4122116. Sign up and see what Dr Birdy and friends can find on the refuge. Try googling sparrowfest 2021 if link above doesn’t work.