I decided to redo week 47 Nature. Looking back through my pictures I realized I hadn’t done any bird photography lately, and with the full feeders I had plenty of subjects to choose from. The light just hasn’t been great. Today I finally caught this portrait of a female Cardinal…
My computer was bogged down with conversions on all my photos from this weekend, so I grabbed the first acceptable high-key image I could get before the deadline. I will hopefully have more ready to share on my FB and website pages tomorrow.This little Yellow warbler was preening against the…
At a bird banding station this morning this little guy watches as his measurements are recorded. He was a repeat visitor, having been banded in a different year. He managed to escape from the weight measurement tube before a reading could be made for that information. #birdbanding #repeatvisitor #chickadee #records…
We stayed four nights of our trip at a little RV park (Americana The Birding Center RV Park) just north of Bentsen State Park so we would have easy access to the Butterfly Reserve and the park. The campgrounds actually had a small Birding area with trails and feeding stations…
The National Butterfly Reserve, a privately held conservation area dedicated to conserving butterflies and other native wildlife in southern Texas, was our next stop. If the wall is built the park will be cut in half, so we stopped in to see what all the fuss is about. This is…
“To save the entire environment: wilderness protection, proper use of parks, breakdown of Federal operation of the parks in favor of private interests, acquiring new park and wilderness land, unrestrained oil drilling and mining on land and offshore, etc. First on the list now is that all the wilderness areas…
