Monday, I skipped out of work several times to get a little birding done . . . now January isn’t exactly prime time for such behavior . . . most species and birders have hunkered down for the winter. Unfortunately I was having my right knee replaced on Tuesday and our year to date…
Ingrid and I subscribe to several eBird’s Rare Bird Alert (Maine, New Hampshire, Massachusetts, USA) . . . and each winter the Ring-necked Duck is listed on the Maine Report . . . and always at the same place . . . Damariscotta Mills. Damariscotta Mills is a small hamlet in Mid-Coast Maine that is…
Having returned to the real world after a birding week in Texas . . . we’ve gotten off to a relatively slow start. During a stop at the Newcastle Maine Mail-It-For You I noticed a white pigeon among a group of feral pigeons. He had a band on his leg. I asked around and the…
Before I began birding . . . my visits to Texas were on business: Houston, Dallas and as an occasional layover at an airport. When I thought about Texas it was Roger Staubach; Tim Duncan and Nolan Ryan or in the political vein Bush ’41, Bush ’43 and Ted Cruz. Then my wife got me into…
As we watch birds . . . I often forget that I am watching wild animals that regularly kill and are killed for food. Yesterday on a birding boat trip near South Padres Island, Texas . . . we watched a coyote consume at White Pelican that it had killed. Horrific in many ways but…
With nearby National Wildlife Refuge closed due to the Government Shutdown over “the Wall”, we changed plans and headed an hour west to Quinta Mazatlan, A 1930’s country estate in the heart of McAllen, Texas. Quinta Mazatlan is an historic Spanish Revival adobe hacienda surrounded by lush tropical landscaping & native woodland. A unique conference &…
Christmas presents were opened . . . breakfast was eaten . . . where upon Ingrid and I waved good bye to our grown children, packed and headed to Boston for an early morning flight to the southern tip of Texas. The Lower Rio Grande Valley is filled with wintering species and year round species…
American White Pelicans winter in Mexico and southern parts of California, Texas and Florida. During the summer they can be found in the Dakotas, Montana, Oregon, Northern California, Alberta and Saskatchewan. Last week one appeared in Maine for a few days . . . and today it showed up on the coast of New Hampshire.…
Cold weather, work and Christmas demands have limited our birding . . . but managed to get out at sunrise this morning. I briefly saw what I think was a Northern Shrike . . . but my view wasn’t good/long enough to call it as a first of the year sighting. The rest of the…
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