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Yellow-footed Gull YES
I couldn’t sit still with so many rare birds present in Texas — especially when one was a first state record Gull !!!! So I opted for Amarillo (rather than RGV at the moment). I put in 8 hours of stakeout time for the Yellow-footed Gull in Amarillo yesterday and today and it paid off…
Davis Mountains & Mountain Plover
I spent the last week in Davis Mountains. Here’s a few locals. Having heard of 88 mountain plovers near San Angelo, I detoured that direction on the way home and found about a dozen on a cold and rainy morning. Nice turf farm there on Susan Peak road. See map below if you want to…
Snail Kite YES
Distant Snail Kite you may have heard of at Lake Sommerville SP this morning. Only 144 species or so more to go in Texas.
Radar Birding
This from the Texbirds facebook page by David Sarkozi. “If you’re in the Houston area go outside and look up! Massive movement of birds, I’ve had over 1000 wood storks pass over, others have reported up to 10,000 broad-winged hawks, radar shows many birds still moving into the area”.
Glaucous Gull Corpus Christi
Really enjoyed this beautiful and cooperative gull !! I’ve decided Glaucous and Iceland are my favorites, until I see an Ivory or Ross’s at least!!
Greg Lasley
If you want to understand better how to be a great naturalist, you can find no better example than Greg Lasley. I only met him once, but he was a good friend of my grandfather’s, so I had heard of him by the late 70s. When I met him in 2008 he recited my grandfather’s…
