Night Flight Tracking
Smithsonian National Zoo Website

Smithsonian National Zoo Website

Are we in the doldrum days for birding in Texas? How do you get your birding fix during June and July? Here’s a couple of fascinating articles I ran across while working various arm-chair birding projects. The Doubtful Birder: Decision Making & Field Identification article David A. Sibley Article on Certainty in Sight Records
Eric and I had an interesting time during April watching the radar for birds and especially cold fronts that might mean a fallout. I may be wrong, but I think this radar depiction shows migrating birds (light blue) and then an approaching cold front (April 20, 2025). The birds seem to shy away from the…
Interesting article from Birdcast.
I birded a bit on Post Oak, Alum Creek Road and vicinity this morning (Webberville park closed). Had a few migrants and first of seasons including 10 upland sandpipers (some singing), 4 YH Blackbirds, Franklin’s gulls, painted bunting, yellow throated, white-eye, red-eye vireos, northern parulas, pine warblers, and swainson’s hawk. I also resent the Dropbox…
I had a great time at Granger Lake yesterday, sitting solo by the swim area watching migration go by!! No gulls at the swim area, but good numbers flying by and at 2 poorly accessible roosts.