Brown Booby
Also took me about 30 seconds to add this Brown Booby in Aggieland a couple of weeks ago to my Texas list. Only bird on the lake.
Same trip as the Limpkin, I was on a roll!!! 60 seconds of birding and added 2.

Also took me about 30 seconds to add this Brown Booby in Aggieland a couple of weeks ago to my Texas list. Only bird on the lake.
Same trip as the Limpkin, I was on a roll!!! 60 seconds of birding and added 2.

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.
Here’s a little gulls quiz for the IDDGG class of 2023 and a video of gull-pipers (still at Granger yesterday).
The TBRC is excited to add both SMALL-BILLED ELAENIA and TRINDADE PETREL to the state list, bringing it to 663 species! The elaenia was seen in May 2021 on Mustang Island (Nueces Co) by Andrew Orgill and Rylee Gonzales; it was identified at the time as an empidonax. A few months later, in August 2021,…
Virginia and I made a quick trip to corpus yesterday for 3 gulls and a duck. Our score on target birds? 0 for 4!! But none the less a great day!!! Especially seeing these early migrants under perfect lighting conditions, in leafless trees at eye level!! DOWN WITH WOBBLER-NECK !!!! (new bumper sticker?)
I had a great time on the 29th communing with a visiting celebrity in Corpus Christi!! If you haven’t heard, this is a Kelp Gull born about 1 year ago in the southern hemisphere (South America most likely). Very impressive bill (compared to Herring in pic).