SE Texas Birding & Wildlife Watching

On Saturday morning, Dee and I spent a couple of hours in Jesse Jones Park. The park was exceptionally green and there were butterflies galo...

My drive home from work yesterday reminded me that you don’t always have to go birding to see interesting birds and bird behavior. As I was ...

We decided to spend Sunday morning looking for warblers at the Edith L Moore Sanctuary. At most times of the year this isn't a great bir...

Spring migration is really getting underway now. A 10-minute walk around the campus yesterday turned up two new year birds. A Purple Martin ...

I did a quick walk around the campus yesterday morning in the hope that a weak front had brought down some migrants. And, sure enough, the n...

Once you have been birding for a few years, it gets harder and harder to see new species. You have seen all of the common birds and so the o...

Today is officially the start of spring in the USA and most people are happy to welcome the new season. For me, as for other birdwatchers, s...

. After the disappointment of our cancelled Whooping Crane cruise, we made the best of our drive back to Houston by stopping off at San Bern...

At 7:15 a.m. Saturday we were very excited. We were in Fulton harbor, standing beside a boat called the Skimmer and waiting for the crew to ...

On Friday we drove 200 miles down to Rockport in pouring rain to go on a Whooping Crane cruise. (As you'll see in my next blog, the crui...

I managed to squeeze in a half-hour walk around Jesse Jones park this morning. As usual, the park had mainly yardbirds and other common spec...

Deanne and I had planned to spend the weekend at Rockport, seeing the Whooping Cranes. However, the weather didn’t look wonderful for a boat...