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The Laguna Madre Mudflats
Post #8 of The Great Texas Birding Adventure Previous Post #7 A Convention Center for Birds and Birders Just north of the Bird Center and Convention Center, the Bay Access provides easy access to the extensive mudflats of the Laguna Madre during low tide. If one is cognizant of the…
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A Convention Center for Birds and Birders
Post #7 of The Great Texas Birding Adventure Previous Post #6 Baa Baa Sheepshead, Have you any Birds? About the Area The South Padre Island Convention Center grounds include three main attractions for birders. Laguna Madre Nature Trail The Laguna Madre Nature Trail head starts right next to the whaling…
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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…
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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…
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Merced County 2021 eBird Checklist #2 – Merced NWR
2021 Merced County Species-to-DateLife List = 178Year List = 76 After a delightful tour around the San Luis NWR – Waterfowl Tour Route, my next destination would be the Merced NWR. Infamous for its auto tour route that takes visitors on a loop through time with thousands of Snow Geese,…
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The Annual Christmas Bird Count (CBC)
WHAT IS A CHRISTMAS BIRD COUNT? The Christmas Bird Count (CBC) is a census of birds in the Western Hemisphere, performed annually in the early Northern-hemisphere winter by volunteer birdwatchers and administered by the National Audubon Society. The purpose is to provide population data for use in science, especially conservation…
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Are you a Birder or Bird Photographer?
I had the opportunity to sit and chat last week for an hour with a couple of bird photographers in southeast Arizona. We were seated next to a photography blind at Mary Jo’s Ash Canyon B&B outside Hereford, AZ. All three of us had cameras with really long lenses and…
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California’s Super Bloom 2019
Upon their return from a conference in Palm Springs, some of my colleagues shared how amazing the current wild flower bloom was. It so happened that we had a family trip planned to the Riverside area during Spring Break, so I thought, why not check it out? WHAT CONDITIONS CAUSE…
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No Butts About it, Merced NWR is for the Birds
I decided that today was a great day to drive down to the Merced National Wildlife Refuge to see what was hanging around there. The temperature looks a bit chilly (31 degrees) but there’s no fog and no rain until later on in the week. My target bird for the…
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The Case of the Mysterious “Might-be-a-rare-bird”
Birders as a whole, can be quite passionate about their bird lists. While we still thoroughly enjoy the activities of our common sparrows and finches, it’s the rare birds that really fuel our obsession. We live for that next new addition to our beloved list. The subtleties and nuances that…
Reflections of the Natural World 