Hornsby Field Trip Empids Class
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).
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11, possibly 12 species at Hornsby yesterday. Here’s a few pix.
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Have a look at several pix of an Empid I had at my place in Williamson County on the North San Gabriel River (The Dacha). Tell me what you think (and don’t peek at comments before you consider for yourself
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13 Species of shorebirds at Hornsby this morning, plus first of season (for me) of these quackers.