The Texas Ornithological Society held its winter meeting in Alpine this past weekend, and a cold one it was! I went to the oasis Thursday af...

Loading in Alpine (Dec 30)   Unloading at CMO (Dec 30) January's nearly half over and it hasn't been totally uneventful. My 83 year ...

The weather had been great all Christmas week, but a cold front was due to hit today. So yesterday, I was itching to go birding before it mo...

I started blogging in 2009.  Between 2011-2022  I averaged over 200 posts per year. In recent years, that number has dwindled. In 2024, I ma...

I just returned from going to my granddaughter's graduation from Texas State University in San Marcos. Her degree is in computer science...

Quite typical for me to get a respiratory infection this time of year. I'm pretty much well by now though. Fingers crossed that I don...

I don't get enough family time so it's always a treat to get to spend time with them. Saturday morning early, chauffered by my son L...

I arrived at the oasis shortly after daylight, rushed to the trail cam to see if anything interesting was around. To my surprise, yesterday,...

The oasis got a flyover of [41] Snow Geese, which happened unexpectedly and quickly. Had me scrambling to document. It counts as a new oasis...

That horrible hail-ridden monsoon happened a week ago today. I had gone to the oasis afterwards, looked for clips of it on my trail cam, and...