On Friday morning, I met up with Clay Taylor and WildBird on the Fly. Clay had a little time in the morning for some digiscoping before working the Swarovski booth at the Rio Grande Valley Bird Fest. I was anxious to really give my new Fuji FinePix E900 a good workout (thank you again National [ Read More ]
Great-tailed grackles are in huge abundance in Texas. Many wake me up outside my hotel room. The evening roosts are spectacular, but the sounds the birds make is down right freaky. I tried to get a video to record the sound. Below is a great-tailed grackle puffing up and giving several clicks and whistles–it almost [ Read More ]
My goodness, I’m tired and just about birded out (as well as incredibly itchy and somewhat stinky). The Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival should almost be called the Birder Reunion Bird Festival since so many of us show up here and connect. I started my Texas birding adventure with a field trip to Bensten-Rio Grande [ Read More ]
Here’s a quick video of a green jay with our field trip leader answering someone’s question about javalinas in the background:
The Harlingen Airport is happy to see birders in Texas–look at the size of that banner! I feel so welcomed for the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. We had the opening reception last night, which is a great time to reconnect with friends and eat some fancy foods. There was a new addition to the [ Read More ]
Holy Buckets, I am in love with the boys at the Golden Valley, MN National Camera Exchange. My all-time favorite point and shoot digital camera to use for digiscoping is a Fuji FinePix E900. It’s been discontinued and hard to find. They found one for me. I’m takin’ that bad boy to Texas. The Canon [ Read More ]
Doh, it’s raining this morning, not sure I’m going banding at Carpenter. Well, I have some banding photos from last weekend and it’s SkyWatch Friday, I’ll work on that and see if the rain subsides: Years ago, the summer before Non Birding Bill and I moved to Minnesota, we were on vacation with his family [ Read More ]
Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival November 5 – 9, 2008 is the site of the Second Annual Bird Blogger Conference. What does this mean? Well, a lot of bird bloggers in one place at one time to meet face to face, share ideas, watch some birds, and maybe even meet some potential advertisers and sponsors [ Read More ]
Really, it is. I swear. At least for this year. Banding was slow today at Carpenter Nature Center and I spent the morning talking to the Development Director while she repaired nets. Fortunately, I had a chance to observe some banding while at the Rio Grande Valley Bird Festival. Once again, a Sunday morning trip [ Read More ]
And yet more Texas birding goodness. Incidentally, if you have been reading these entries and thinking, “Dude, I so have to get my birding butt to south Texas!” I have been in contact with a friend of Non Birding Bill’s who runs a travel agency and we are putting together a trip for next October… [ Read More ]
