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South Padre Island – Migratory Bird Mecca
Post #5 of The Great Texas Birding Adventure Previous Post #4 Laguna Vista – A Nature Trail and Fish Tacos After a most excellent fish taco lunch and short stroll in Roloff Park in Laguna Vista, we decided that we wanted to explore the other side of the bay. While there are a number of Read more
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Laguna Vista – A Nature Trail and Fish Tacos
Post #4 of The Great South Texas Birding Adventure Previous Post #3 What a Dump! After a brief, but successful stop at the Laguna Atascosa NWR Bahia Grande Unit, AKA Apolmado Falcon Viewing Area for the … Aplomado Falcon, we headed to a little spot that came highly recommended from the Rio Grande Valley Birding Read more
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What a Dump!
Post #3 of The Great South Texas Birding Adventure Previous Post #2 Why Birders Flock to the Rio Grande Valley – Lists and Photographs The Cornell Lab of Ornithology Birds of the World says it best. Tamaulipas Crow is generally found below 300 m, where it inhabits scrubby farmland and open woodland, as well as Read more
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Why Birders Flock to the Lower Rio Grande Valley – Lists and Photographs
Post #2 of The Great South Texas Birding Adventure SeriesLink to Post #1 The Great South Texas Birding Adventure Begins Why would the three amigos from The Great South Texas Birding Adventure choose South Texas as their destination for this grand escapade? Two things, Lists and Photographs! Astronomical Growth of Birdwatching Huge numbers of people Read more
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The Great South Texas Birding Adventure Begins
On a very early Monday morning on April 26, 2021, 3 intrepid birders from California’s Central Valley set out to travel to the Lower Rio Grande Valley in search of BIRDS. By the time we returned 9 days later, a total of 206 life Texas birds would be checked off our combined eBird totals. For Read more
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The Undiscovered Country
2021 Merced County Species-to-Date (as of last checklist)Life List = 186Year List = 140 Whereas this title may bring to mind either Shakespeare’s Hamlet or Gene Roddenberry’s Start Trek VI, it is merely a reference to the Eastern Merced County grasslands that I had never ventured into before. I again scoured eBird for recent reports Read more
Reflections of the Natural World
Travel with me as I explore the wild things and wild places of our planet. – Jim Gain
Reflections of the Natural World 