Marfa Breeding Bird Survey 2024
Another BBS out of Marfa is in the books! Here’s a few participants.
What say ye on the flycatcher? (same bird in 2 pix and a video)








Another BBS out of Marfa is in the books! Here’s a few participants.
What say ye on the flycatcher? (same bird in 2 pix and a video)








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).
Welcome to B3 — Be a Better Beetle!! I’ve been trying to catch one of these guys for 2 years out in Davis Mountains!! Finally nabbed one with a butterfly net. Photographed and released. They are super swift and maneuverable!! I believe it’s called an Emerald Euphoria, which is such a great name for these…
Here’s a few other recent birds from Montana and Wyoming. (the 1 day in my life we planned to go to Yellowstone — floods, evacuation and closure)
And here are some additional pix from Davis Mountains in August 2023.
Mills pond today. Do you remember what to look for? 2 birds.
Regretfully we were a little short on SHORE for he shorebirds class field trip to corpus over the weekend. But I think we enjoyed it none the less and ended up with around 20 shorebird species!! Highlights for me were seeing a Cassin’s Kingbird at Blucher park, more Red Knots than I’ve ever seen ~20,…