Avian Discoveries
In mid-June, on my way to buy groceries, I was walking across an empty parking lot and heard the distinctive sound of a killdeer. As I approached, a pair of them starting going wild, which from...
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This is another post about another mid-June bird encounter. One possible route to work takes me, for a short distance, through a field covered by prairie grass near my apartment complex. I often heard...
View ArticleTom Turkey
Here is a picture of the tom turkey that stops by my parents’ house a few times each day. I took this when I was visiting during the Labor Day Weekend.
View ArticleSandhill Cranes
A couple weeks ago, I was in my garage and heard a group of birds that sounded completely foreign to me. I eventually located the source: it was what appeared to be several dozen migrating geese. I...
View ArticleBighorn Sheep
I just happened to run across a group of bighorn sheep when I was up in the foothills conducting some business. They were actually standing on the opposite side of the highway from the destination in...
View ArticleAustin Bat Report
This is a follow-up to my earlier post “The Austin Bat Bridge“. This post is mostly about bats. First, however, is a couple turtles I observed while on the Ann W. Richards Congress Avenue Bridge (i.e.,...
View ArticleIowa Trip Wildlife Photos
A few posts back, I promised (with conditions) some deer and turkey photos from my trip home last month. Here they are! The turkeys below come by the house several times a day and eat seed that has...
View ArticleLoon Sighting Yesterday
I was not sure if loons spend any time here, but yesterday I saw one swimming and diving in Lake Washington. I had previously only seen them in Ontario and Minnesota and had little knowledge of their...
View ArticleSquirrel Portrait
At the end of this link is a great picture of a squirrel that jumped in the frame during a time-delayed photograph. Be sure to read the caption beneath the picture.
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