. We have left Texas! We moved to Spain on August 20 and are now living in Barcelona. So I'm closing this blog. Goodbye!
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/10/farewell-to-texas.html
. Now that our move to Spain is approaching, Dee and I have been making what will probably be our last-ever visits to some of our favorite birding sites. We made one such visit to Sheldon Lake St...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/07/some-last-visits.html
. I haven't had any time for birding lately because we've been busy preparing our house for sale. However, on a recent visit to our doctor I managed to fit in a few minutes watching some Black-be...
. Floods, work and preparations for selling our house have conspired to prevent us from doing another birding trip since our weekend visit to High Island, Bolivar and Galveston. So I've been rest...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/05/migration-nearer-home.html
. After leaving High Island, we drove west along Bolivar Peninsula to catch the ferry to Galveston. As usual, the Bolivar harbor was busy with Cormorants, Laughing Gulls, American White Pelican...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/05/looking-for-migrants-4.html
. Saturday morning we got to Boy Scout Woods in time for the morning birdwalk. Unfortunately, it was extremely quiet for birds. This Rose-breasted Grosbeak near the guides' house was the only mig...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/04/looking-for-migrants-3.html
. I got back to High Island a few minutes early for the 4:00 pm guided walk through Smith Oaks and I saw several birds before the walk began. A Baltimore Oriole was in the trees near the assemb...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/04/looking-for-migrants-2.html
. We arrived at Boy Scout Woods only to be told by several people who were leaving that there were no birds around. Luckily, this turned out not to be true and I had my first bird - a Wood Thrush...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/04/looking-for-migrants-1.html
. Sunday I was up and out of the house by 5:30 a.m., heading for the Attwater NWR. I'd been meaning to do another visit there for a while but what made me choose this day was that this weekend wa...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/04/early-morning-birding.html
. April is my final month working at Lone Star CyFair and I'm hoping to see some spring migrants here before I leave. I haven't had too much luck so far, though. There are plenty of our common ...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/04/birding-cyfair-campus.html
. As the weather forecast for Sunday morning was good, we drove over to Sheldon Lake State Park. The weather did turn out to be excellent but, partly because of this, the park had many more visit...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/04/sheldon-lake-state-park.html
. On the way back from High Island we took our friends for their first visit to Anahuac NWR, our favorite nature site in southeast Texas. We didn't get there until mid-afternoon and so there were...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/04/anahuac-yet-again.html
. Our friends were late arriving on Sunday and so we didn't reach High Island until noon. The Smith Oaks rookery was very busy - with both birds and people. There weren't only birds and people e...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/03/getting-busy-at-rookery.html
. Sunday morning I was up early and arrived at Rollover Pass on the Bolivar peninsula before dawn. As on our February visit, there were plenty of birds but almost all of them were far from t...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/03/dawn-on-bolivar.html
. We finally got enough free time to fit in a weekend birding trip. Although the weather was wild and windy, we decided to visit Anahuac NWR on Saturday and then High Island on Sunday. We starte...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/03/another-coastal-trip.html
. In a typical year, I don't get to see many owls. So after seeing the Burrowing Owl at Anahuac NWR, I wasn't expecting to see any more owls for a while. However, a few days ago I noticed that so...
. After largely dipping on birds on Bolivar, I wasn't too optimistic about Galveston. However, although birds were fairly scarce, there were some good ones. I was too slow stopping and getting o...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/03/coastal-trip-part-4.html
. We didn't have a lot of luck with birds along the Bolivar peninsula on Sunday morning. Rollover Pass had thousands of birds but all of them were on sandbanks far away from the beach. The beach...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/03/coastal-trip-part-3.html
. After leaving Anahuac on Saturday, we paid a brief visit to Smith Oaks in High Island. I was amazed to see that the rookery was already busy with hundreds of nesting birds. There wer...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/03/coastal-trip-part-2.html
. We took the opportunity of having a free weekend to do our favorite birding loop: Anahuac NWR, High Island, Bolivar and Galveston. To give ourselves plenty of birding time, we arranged to spend...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/03/coastal-trip-part-1.html
. As well as some early morning trips in search of Sandhill Cranes, I also managed a very quick lunchtime trip on the Katy Prairie last week. Midday is hardly the best time for birds but there...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/02/last-week-on-prairie.html
. Friday morning I left for work before 6:00 a.m. because I wanted to drive in via the Katy Prairie. I'd heard that large numbers of Sandhill Cranes roost there and I was hoping to see some of th...
. Grabbed an hour on Sunday morning to check out the birds around the Longwood detention pond on Huffmeister Road. I was particularly keen to see how the nesting Bald Eagles were getting on. A...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/02/just-down-road.html
. I set out on Saturday morning to drive up to the weekend birdwalk at Kleb Woods. However, I'd only gone a couple of hundred yards before I had to pull over to admire a Red-tailed Hawk perched b...
http://jeffincypress.blogspot.com/2016/02/kleb-woods-and-our-backyard.html
. Except in our backyard, I don't normally spend much time watching Northern Cardinals. However, the other day at the college I just had to stop and watch a male Cardinal as he delicately picked ...