Kay and I left Boerne, TX yesterday after Jean was able to get a ride to the San Antonio airport and we headed for Austin. We were pretty exhausted and really didn’t bird on the way up. We got to town, had low energy, found the Contemporary Art Museum closed for renovations, and walked around Read More…
Category: Texas
Enchanted Rock State Natural Area
Today after sleeping in and having a lazy start to the day Kay, Jean and I went to explore the Enchanted Rock State Natural Area. It is a really unusual place where a riparian area passes beside a large ledge dome of rock. We didn’t get there until near noon, about the same time lots Read More…
Kay 2 – Ed 1 ABA Lifers Today at Lost Maples
Today Kay, Jean and I went to Lost Maples SRA to hike the East Side Trail and look for two Texas specialty birds, Golden-cheeked Warbler and Black-capped Vireo. Both were first time ABA birds (lifers) for Kay, and the vireo a lifer for me. We got there about 8:30 AM and just as we arrived Read More…
Edith L. Moore Nature Sanctuary Houston Texas
Today Kay and I visited the very nice urban Houston Audubon Society’s Edith L. Sanctuary as a storm driven alternative to High Island. We fled the coast in the midst of the historic downpour yesterday, spent a comfortable night at our Priceline bargain of the day, the Westin, and got up this AM for a Read More…
One Day Only at High Island
Thankfully yesterday Kay and I had a pretty good day at High Island before being chased by torrential rain, flood conditions and a dismal 4 day forcast today. We started at Boy Scout Woods, the Houston Audubon Societies refuge, and spent an hour or so ourselves before joining the first of 3 free guided walks Read More…
2015 Wrap Up
2015 was a very eventful year for me. I retired at the end of August, my Dad passed in August, and I had both lots of time to travel and tried to accumulate a Pierce County year list. Here were some of the birding highlights: Pierce County: I got to know Bruce Labar much better Read More…
Red-Cockaded Woodpecker, Brown-headed Nuthatch and Space Shuttle
Today Kay and I decided that we would add a trip to WG Jones Forest before we went to the Houston NASA Center, and had almost instant success finding her two life birds in the first 20 minutes there. First a Red-cockaded woodpecker called drawing us to see it first perched high on a snag Read More…
Goose Island and Aransas
Yesterday Kay and I took a day largely off from birding and rested up. Today we left early from Rockport to Goose Island State Park where it was windy which seemed to keep the birds down, but I managed to find a few birds, highlights were lots of close up looks at most of the Read More…
Leaving the RGV- Northern Jacana at Choke Canyon.
Kay and I spent our last time in the Lower Rio Grande Valley this morning at the Sabal Palm Sanctuary in Brownsville. The visit was notable for the incredible lack of birds, the vast swarms of mosquitos, seeing the infamous “wall” and meeting Greg Miller, the character Jack Black played in the movie The Big Read More…
Hook-billed Kite: Third Time Success
Kay and I headed back to Anzalduas Park today for our third visit looking for Hook-billed Kite. We got off to a slower than optimal start today and didn’t arrive until 9 AM. On arrival several excited birders were on the kite, and it had just slipped behind the trees by the dike. I had Read More…