Categories: Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest
Archive for the ‘Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest’ Category
Winter and lots of snow brings with it cabin fever. We have lots of modern conveniences that help ease that tension, like Netflix Watch Instantly and Amazon Streaming and alcohol! You don’t have to go to a rental facility, you don’t even have to wait for Netflix to arrive in the mail–you can have most [ Read More ]
Categories: Canopy Tower, digiscoping, Laguna Atascosa, Panama, Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest, Texas
I’m going to start this post off with landscape shots that have a brown bird called a common pauraque in them. See if you can find the bird(s) and at the end of the post, I’ll put up the photos pointing out where they are and you can see if you were able to find [ Read More ]
Categories: digiscoping, Featured Post, Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest, Texas
There’s a new podcast up for Birdwatch Radio. It’s part one of a two part series made during this year’s Rio Grande Valley Birding Festival. He talks to my buddy Jim Danzenbaker from Kowa (and Jim even schools you on how to properly pronounce the name Kowa). Also interviewed is one of the guys from [ Read More ]
Categories: Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest
Can you believe I still have blogging to do about Texas?? It really is one of my favorite birding trips I do all year. I love the organizers, the birds, the food, the temperature–it’s tops. Check out this altamira oriole that was just cleaning itself off after using a bird bath at Laguna Atascosa NWR. [ Read More ]
Categories: digiscoping, Laguna Atascosa, Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest, Texas
Here is a yellowlegs that WildBird on the Fly and I observed at one of my favorite digiscoping spots, Estero Llano Grande. She and I went there a couple of times and I tried to get some lifers and do some digiscoping. I discovered that I need to focus on one thing at a time. [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, digiscoping, estero llano grande, Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest, Texas
It’s Skywatch Friday again! If you have a blog with a photo of sky, you can link your post up to Skywatch Friday and share the beauty. I thought I’d share one of my “in transit” days. I never cease to be amazed at the ability to change time and temperature with our ability of [ Read More ]
Categories: digiscoping, Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest, skywatch fridays, Texas
One of the fun parts of visiting the Rio Grande Valley is the chance to see an aplomado falcon. One of the best places to look is Laguna Atascosa NWR. Two years ago I got the chance to chase one down (it practically took half the bird festival to help me get it). The aplomado [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, digiscoping, Laguna Atascosa, Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest, Texas
The next Birds and Beers is Tuesday, November 18, 2008 at 6pm at Merlin’s Rest. Birds and Beers is an informal gathering of birders of all abilities–if you’re interested in birds, you’re invited. You can meet other birders–maybe find a carpool buddy, ask about where to find target birds, share cool research projects you might [ Read More ]
Categories: Bird Festivals, Birds and Beers, Blog Conferences, Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest, Texas
Amy, Clay, and I had great looks at other birds besides the osprey starting a nest. We started the morning at the jetty where many fishermen gather, as do birders. We saw so many dolphins, it could have qualified as a starling flock. But we were not after marine mammals, we wanted to scan the [ Read More ]
