Category Archives: Texas birding

Some Birds of Goose Island

Posted on January 29, 2011 by Richard

With both shorebirds and woods birds, Goose Island has a wonderful population of bird species and the surrounding areas add some variety.  I’ve added seven birds to my life list (231) since I got here and saw four birds this … Continue reading →

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Pelicans

Posted on January 28, 2011 by Richard

As a pilot and as a birder, I love pelicans.  I’m intrigued by the way they fly inches off the water, in “ground effect” and it’s fun to watch them weave back and forth with the traffic flow on a … Continue reading →

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Settled In at Goose Island

Posted on January 24, 2011 by Richard

The trip down on Saturday was uneventful and traversing Houston on a Saturday morning was relatively easy – although the Houston drivers must have trained in Boston. We did go by hundreds of school kids working along one of the … Continue reading →

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