SE Texas Birding & Wildlife Watching

. I've had a pretty good birding year so far, having already seen 251 species in Texas. I've also managed to get some pretty good (...

. The other day a colleague showed me a Killdeer nest with four eggs near the campus tennis courts. Later  I went back to photograph the ne...

. Another young bird turned up in our yards yesterday: a juvenile Northern Mockingbird. You can tell it's a juvenile by the spots on it...

. The final part of our weekend near the coast was a visit to the rookery at High Island. On our drive from Winnie to Hgh Island we came ...

. The marshy areas of the pond were fairly quiet but we did get distant views of three Whimbrels and a couple of Wilson's Phalaropes (b...

. We headed to Winnie on Saturday morning, hoping to see some more migrant warblers at High Island. On the way we stopped in for 45 minutes ...