High Island
Another great trip to High Island with Eric and others!!! Witnessing a fallout happen was amazing!!!







Another great trip to High Island with Eric and others!!! Witnessing a fallout happen was amazing!!!







After gulls and flysnatchers, I’m starting to think of shorebirds again! This pix didn’t make the cut in the TAS Greg Lasley photo contest, but it was one of my favorites I took during birdathon.
Allan and I had a good commune with the Glaucous Gull in Corpus yesterday. (Missed the Iceland Gull there for the 4th time).
Attwater NWR As usual, I started my High Island adventure for 2025 with a visit to Attwater Prairie Chicken NWR. Also per usual, no Prairie Chickens!! However the singing Dickcissels were everywhere!! I was especially interested to see a group of about 25 Dickcissels all within about 20 yards of each other and all singing…
We had a nice field trip to Hornsby this morning to finish up the Spring Shorebird Class!!. 12 species of shorebird, plus 2 gull and 1 tern species. Some of us also had a bonus bird near the end of the field trip. White-rumped sandpipers are the stars of the show right now, but I…
Wonders never sleep!!………….Or was that rust? Houston Audubon Sanctuaries
I enjoyed Cin Ty Lee’s presentation on Empids at TOS!! He’s got some good material on his website: http://www.cintylee.org/#/guiding-services/ I also notice that Butter Butt’s are scarfing down crushed pecans in the street in several locations.