I thought the shady water feature looked really good this morning. First shot is taken  from the new viewing spot. The next shot is c...

The oasis sort of evolved without a lot of foresight in many areas, so I had a problem with the viewing area for the shade water feature. Th...

It was raining so hard in Alpine that I figured if I went to the oasis I'd finally get to see it rain there. Rushed down there and not a...

A university biology class visited today with Master Bander, Kelly Bryan. The oasis is looking great and I think the experience will have a ...

Some sharp birders (Cameron Carver and Steve Gross) at the oasis today recognized a bird they found here as being a Louisiana Waterthrush a...

I've had a few photographers do elaborate setups to get that perfect photo, but none brought in as many flowers as this photographer did...

Hummers aren't very plentiful anywhere in the Big Bend area these days. Migration should be in full swing by now. It may be there are fe...

I thought it hatched 5 days ago (see post of July 10), so it appears to have fledged prematurely. I walked past the nest to turn on a water ...

Partly to escape the mosquitoes, but mostly to look for Lucifer Hummingbird nests, I braved the mountain. I didn't see or hear a hummer....

Got down to the oasis this afternoon, after 3 days of banding, to find it swarming with mosquitoes. I know why it happened. When I was here ...