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Birding

A Year Outside 2021 … in a 2-minute Video

Posted on November 26, 2021November 26, 2021 by Shannon

Not having time to write, here's a zippy 2- minute video instead.

Posted in NatureTagged Birding, Brazos Bend State Park, Coastal prairie, Mueller State Park, Nature photography, Seabourne Creek Nature Park13 Comments

Taking Time To Shoot The Birds

Posted on June 30, 2019December 27, 2021 by Shannon

A late-ish spring birding post on the Texas coastal prairies. With pictures.

Posted in Birds, Conservation, NatureTagged Birding, Black-throated Green Warbler, Chestnut-sided Warbler, Cliff Swallow, Common Nighthawk, Dickcissel, Migration, Sanderling, Spring, Summer Tanager, Swainson's Hawk, Whooping Crane9 Comments

Sunshine And Water

Posted on January 13, 2019December 19, 2021 by Shannon

A short photo tribute to one of our brightest winter birds: Tweety.

Posted in Birds, NatureTagged Birdbath, Birding, Sunshine, Wilson's warbler, Winter, Yardbirds11 Comments

Local Birding: Resetting The Love

Posted on January 7, 2019December 27, 2021 by Shannon

Kicking off 2019 right .. with feathers!

Posted in Birds, NatureTagged American Goldfinch, Anhinga, Birding, Brazos Bend State Park, Brazos River, Flooding, Purple Finch, Red-bellied Woodpecker, Vermillion Flycatcher, White-faced Ibis, Yardbirds17 Comments

Big Bend Birding: Off The Grid

Posted on December 8, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon

A digital photo post, celebrating the birds and living (temporarily) analog.

Posted in Birds, NatureTagged Autumn, Big Bend National Park, Big Bend NP, Birding, Black-crested Titmouse, Black-throated Sparrow, Cactus Wren, Camping, Canyon Towhee, Mexican Jay, Pyrruloxia, Say's Phoebe, Top Posts24 Comments

Skunked. By a Blackbird. (Twice.)

Posted on November 28, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon

We may not have gotten the blackbird, but we got so much more.

Posted in Animals, Birds, Conservation, Nature, vs. Human habitatTagged Alligator, American Kestrel, Birding, Brazoria NWR, Crested Caracara, Nothern Harrier, Red-tailed Hawk, Rusty Blackbird, San Bernard NWR, Skunk11 Comments

Birding Here, Birding There, Birds and Babies Everywhere

Posted on May 5, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon

After a few months, the dust settles and all the pretty feathers fall into place.

Posted in Birds, NatureTagged American Bittern, American Dipper, Birding, Black-throated Green Warbler, Bronzed Cowbird, Indigo Bunting, Least Bittern, Northern Pygmy Owl, Purple Gallinule, Pygmy Nuthatch, Vermillion Flycatcher, Yellow-billed Cuckoo, Yellow-breasted Chat34 Comments

321 Birding Year: Luck and Lifers

Posted on January 10, 2018November 29, 2020 by Shannon
Ruby-crowned Kinglet sing daily mid-summer at DeMotte Campground in the Kaibab National Forest.

321 Birds. One Year. These are the stories and photos behind this year's Luck and Lifers.

Posted in Animals, Birds, NatureTagged Birding, Cassin's Finch, Digiscoping, Golden Eagle, Long-billed Curlew, Red-shouldered Hawk, Ruby-crowned Kinglet, Sandhill Crane, Swainson's Hawk, Wild turkey, Williamson's Sapsucker24 Comments

Missed Moments: A Whirlwind 2017 … In Forgotten Pictures

Posted on January 1, 2018December 27, 2021 by Shannon
My sister's donkey, Pedro, gives me a smile.

A longish re-cap of a busy year, in pictures.

Posted in Birds, Family, Insects, NatureTagged Bald Eagle, Big Bend National Park, Big Bend NP, Birding, Bobcat, Camping, Death, Fawn, Monarch butterfly, Ox Beetle, Rabbit, Snow storm, White-tailed deer24 Comments

Colorado Springs Break

Posted on October 10, 2017December 27, 2021 by Shannon
Copulation of Prairie Falcons at Garden of the Gods, Colorado, make a group of friars blush.

Photo subjects of our 2017 Spring Break in Colorado Springs.

Posted in Birds, Living, NatureTagged Birding, Black-billed Magpie, Brown Creeper, Bushtit, Clarks Nutcracker, Colorado Springs, Gray Jay, Hooded Merganser, Mountain Chickadee, Northern Shoveler, Prairie Falcon, Woodhouse Scrub Jay14 Comments

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