Warbler Butts
Thanks to my buddy Eric who found some warbler butts before I could!!
The following and more can be found at the website for The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle. This is an excellent and innovative book!!


Thanks to my buddy Eric who found some warbler butts before I could!!
The following and more can be found at the website for The Warbler Guide by Tom Stephenson and Scott Whittle. This is an excellent and innovative book!!


Migration is happening!! Tons of yellow warblers and gnatcatchers at Hornsby and a few others sprinkled in like Clay-colored Sparrow and a Flycatcher someone can ID. Also 14 species of shorebirds including Avocets and Semipalm Plovers.
Ok, here’s a mystery bird for the current shorebird class. (if you’re not in the class feel free to email me if you figure out the answer). I recently emailed a demonstration of how to take a stab at identifying distant shorebirds in bad photographs. Here are some really bad photographs (distant digi-scoped). But if…
I finally got one!! Two actually, an apparently mated pair. Give me an ID before I give you the location.
First from Lake Balmorhea, 2nd from Choke Canyon Reservoir. ID?
Fall migration is in the air! Dickcissels and at least 4 upland sandpipers going over on this morning’s walk.
Here’s my second lifer of the trip. Also from near Lincoln, Montana in same burned woodlands. Although we didn’t study this one in B3, I think you can figure it out