Orioles are not birds that one typically associate with being seed eaters but this Altimira oriole at Bentsen Rio Grande State Park certainly seemed to dig them. Most of us think of orioles as nectar, fruit and jelly feeder birds but I’ve seen them sample seed and suet when Baltimore orioles arrive up in Minnesota [ Read More ]
During my South Texas break, we stopped at Santa Ana NWR for a bit. It ended up being too mosquito-ish for my taste and we didn’t last long there but got some great looks at least grebe. These always look like they just heard the most shocking news ever…or that they are swimming around with [ Read More ]
South Texas, as always was SO much fun. Even if you choose to do some casual birding you can still hit all the specialties. I took a mini break down there over the weekend to hang with a girlfriend and since we had both been there, each day we slept in and let our bodies [ Read More ]
So, I was checking out photos of Flat Stanley other people have put in at the Flat Stanley Project and people totally photoshopped him in on some photos. That’s cheating. I could have done that with my nephew’s Flatty S–he could have been in Israel and birding with me in a minefield but I didn’t [ Read More ]
I digiscoped the following photos using both my Nikon D40 and my iPhone 4s with my Swarovski Scope. Can you tell which ones are the iPhone 4s and which ones are the Nikon D40 photos? 1. Green-winged Teal 2. Northern Pintail 3. Red-eared Slider and Gadwall 4. Red-eared Slider and Gadwall
Black-throated green warbler says, “Haha, you can’t see me!”
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 ]
One thing I love about visiting southern states is that some of the birds I see in Minnesota are so much more camera friendly. Pied-billed grebes are shifty in Minnesota, they don’t trust anyone staring at them for too long or they submerge and resurface further away. While in Corpus Christi, my buddy Clay took [ Read More ]
