SE Texas Birding & Wildlife Watching

Hoping for the arrival of Cedar Waxwings, I did a quick walk around the CyFair campus this morning. The fall foliage was beautiful. There we...

Having had a hectic work and social schedule last week, I was glad to have a lazy day at home yesterday. The weather was perfect and it was ...

I had no time to do any birding yesterday at the college where I work, but I still managed to add two new birds to my October list for the c...

I knew it was going to be a good morning for birding as soon as I started along the nature trail at CyFair college. How did I know? I immedi...

Yesterday morning at the CyFair campus, I noticed several small birds behind the mobile classroom where I teach. They weren't near enoug...

When I last visited Bear Creek Park, three weeks ago, there were downed trees and branches everywhere. Most of the site was covered in mud, ...

I birded the CyFair campus for an hour again yesterday morning, this time with a camera. Because of the recent rain, I spent much of the hou...

The CyFair college campus on Barker Cypress Road has been quiet for birds for several months but the arrival of fall has certainly changed t...

Yesterday was my birthday, and Dee and I had coffee in Spring Cypress Park to celebrate. Although we didn't arrive there until almost no...

Last Sunday morning I spent 90 minutes exploring Little Cypress Creek Preserve. This is a nature preserve at the junction of Telge Road and...

Last week Chipping Sparrows returned to our yards, a month weeks earlier than last year. At the same time, Birdwoman reported that her yard ...

Yesterday morning, I returned to Bear Creek Park for the first time since Hurricane Ike. Signs of the storm's passage were everywhere. T...

On Monday, we had a new species show up in our backyard. It was a Blue-gray Gnatcatcher. Unfortunately, it was just passing through and hasn...

On Wednesday, we had to evacuate Surfside because of Hurricane Ike, and so we drove home via Galveston, with a side trip over to the Audubon...

On Monday we went down to Surfside, where we had rented a beach house for four days. It was perfect weather and the location was great for f...