Today I took advantage of being at the Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival to get relatively cheap access to the Norias Area of the King Ranch with Tom Langshied, a full time group leader/Birder for the King Ranch. Along with about 40 others we took a 6 AM bus to the ranch, and targeted everyone’s Read More…
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Grand Park Trail
Today Bruce Labar and I hiked a trail neither of us had visited before, looking for woodpeckers sighted and posted about on Tweeters and e-Bird. After a bit of searching we found the unmarked trailhead just about 10 miles from Hwy 410 on FR 73. The trail almost immediately enters a montane forrest that seems Read More…
St Louis search for Eurasian Tree Sparrow
As Kay and I trek across America today we spent a hot and futile morning looking for the Eurasian Tree Sparrow. It has been being seen at the Horseshoe Lake County Park in western Illinois, but we spent far too much of the morning fighting with google-maps to even access the park, and by the Read More…
Driving Across Mid-America
Kay and I have now been on the road for 3 nights and 4 days, and have come about 1/3 of the way across the U.S. It has been largely a city trip so far, but we have managed a little bit of birding. The first day we just put miles behind us, travelling from Read More…