March 1, 2022
Common House Sparrows. Angry, Angry Birds! “Without question the most deplorable event in the history of American ornithology was the introduction of the English Sparrow.” –W.L. Dawson, […]
January 1, 2022
Wintertime Bird Feeding The infamous February 2021 freeze, Storm Uri, left an enormous percentage of East Texans without power and water for several days. It was […]
October 1, 2021
If you watch birds for just a short time, you will see them tend to their feathers – fluffing them up, smoothing them, poking them, and […]
August 1, 2021
Robert Frost called them…”flowers that fly and all but sing”…. For many people butterflies symbolize the free spirits of loved ones who have passed on. […]
June 4, 2021
What? No birds this time? Nope! We are switching to a creature that strikes fear in many people. Some won’t even read this article when they […]
April 1, 2021
It’s a famous song from a famous movie, the Wizard of Oz. But we don’t have to go “over the rainbow” to see bluebirds because these […]
March 30, 2021
“A wonderful bird is the pelican His bill can hold more than his belican. He can take in his beak Food enough for a week; But […]
January 27, 2021
Where there are fish, there are cormorants. Cormorants are here all year long, but thousands more migrate down and gather in our Texas lakes and rivers […]
November 2, 2020
Also known as a Sea Hawk or a River Hawk, the osprey is a very successful raptor, and the species we have in our area can […]
