Marshallville (GA) Sod Farm Birding
July and August is the time to search for Upland Sandpipers and Buff-breasted Sandpipers on large sod farms, like the Supersod Farm near...
Christmas Mountain Oasis
The Lucifer Hummingbird, a hard-to-find breeding the Big Bend area is the star of the show at Christmas Mountain Oasis. After a night of...
Colima Warbler & Mexican Whip-poor-will
Trevor and me just after I got my life Colima Warbler and just before we got pounded by a storm in the Chisos Mountains of Big Bend...
Common Black Hawk at Rio Grande Village
We got up early on the second day of our West Texas birding trip (June 14, 2016) and drove across Big Bend National Park in the predawn...
West Texas
The 2016 Evolution meetings were convened in Austin in mid-June 2016. Since I was headed west to the meetings, it seemed like a great...
Spring on the Gulf Coast
Summer Tanagers were abundant and often tired and approachable during my April 2016 birding weekend on Dauphin Island Alabama. Last...
South Texas Finale--a Refugio bonanza
Flame-colored Tanager was an awesome surprise at Shelly/Lyons Park in Refugio. I got up early--maybe too early--to start my last birding...
Salineno: the place for three lifers for US birders
A male Audubon's Oriole at the feeding station at Salineno, within 500 meters of Mexico. You can only see this species in the ABA area...
Blue Bunting and Crimson-collared Grosbeak part II
I went back to Laguna Laguna Atascosa National Wildlife Refuge at dawn on the second day of my March 2016 spring break trip to Texas and...
A Screech-Owl Hail Mary
I had about one hour of light left on Sunday March 13 when I pulled into Estero Llano Grande State Park in Weslaco. It was a specatular...
