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High Island 2025 (April/May) Part 1
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…
Rufous Hummingbird
We have at least 3 rufous hummers at our Fort Davis place. The notch in R2 (2nd tail feather (retrices) from the middle) in one of the pix is diagnostic. Full adult male just showed up!! (more pix to come)
Trans Pecos
First some easy ones from the Trans Pecos
Harlequin Quail (Montezuma Quail)
I was delighted to add this heard only bird to the yard list at our Davis Mountains Resort (DMR) place. Also heard them most of the morning at LE Woods picnic area and saw one briefly. (This iPhone video is from a later sighting in the DMR). Current name is Montezuma Quail, but I learned…
Pupfish Pecos River
On return from Davis mnts today I made my regular stop at the pecos river on the outskirts of Iraan (that’s “Ira — Anne”). There I found a Least Flycatcher and a low altitude Uppy flyby. But what really JAZZED ME!! was the apparently healthy population of minnows and I believe Pecos Pupfish (will be…
Dacha Birds
Several first of season for me today at my place. Cranes, w throat sparrow, hermit thrush, mr Lincoln, spot towhee and just now woodcock. It don’t hurt much
