Category Archives: Texas birding
Yellow-faced Grassquit: Yes!
Yellow-faced Grassquit A rare tropical bird, a Yellow-faced Grassquit, showed up at Goose Island State Park about a week after we left in January. For a month now, I have read posts of sightings of him – hundreds of birders … Continue reading
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Rio Grande Turkeys
As I was sitting behind the Airstream reading on our last evening in South Llano River State Park, the dog stirred and became interested in something behind me. It was a “parade” of about 25 Rio Grande turkeys strolling down … Continue reading
My New Favorite Bird
As we have progressed through the South and Southwest with our Airstream, I have made favorites of several species of birds I’ve seen. The last one was the Cactus Wren. I never saw one (knowingly) last year and once I … Continue reading
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Water
One of the tricks that western birders seem to know is that if you can find water, you can usually find birds. That’s been the case for me the last week or so. At Big Bend, we stopped at an … Continue reading
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Life Birds on this trip
To date, I have added 35 birds to my list and missed a number of others. All except one were in Texas. I haven’t gone out of the way for any rarities but just logged stuff I’ve seen. It’s an … Continue reading
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Big Bend Adventures
As Big Bend State Park visitors know, it’s about 70 miles of desolation from Marathon down to the park headquarters, and then another 20 miles of desert to the Rio Grande Village campground. But what amazing vistas as you head … Continue reading
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Heading Westward
Last year, we stayed here at Falcon State Park for some time and then, because of issues with trailer lights, decided to forego going out to Big Bend National Park. This year, figuring we are this far and may not … Continue reading
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Black-vented Oriole
Black-vented Oriole Mary and I took a drive down to Bentsen Rio Grande State Park to do a little birding today. It’s about an hour and half drive – no big deal for Texas – and the park has a … Continue reading
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Avian Eye Candy
Yesterday morning, Mary and I drove down to Salineno, a small refuge on the Rio Grande about 20 minutes from here. Cheryl, the host, has many feeders and attracts a wonderful variety of South Texas birds. When we went there … Continue reading
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Nature Encounters at Falcon
The first afternoon at Falcon State Park, I was reading in the shade (it was 85 degrees) with Penny lying next to me. Suddenly, she exploded into barking and lunging on her leash, startling me. I looked at across the … Continue reading
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