Last visit to Cibolo Nature Park
We’re leaving Texas tomorrow and I decided to hike Cibolo Park one last time. We’ve seen 97 species on this trip and thought it’d be fun to reach 100. After scanning the feeders and the creek, I hiked through some head high thistle. Hearing a faint...
Black-bellied Whistling-Duck
Warbler Woods n Cibolo, TX
A beautiful morning birding with Tina in Warbler Woods, a private property managed as a bird and wildlife refuge and preserve. It covers 126 acres of varied habitat, NE of San Antonio. Among the many sightings was a lifer, the Hutton’s Vireo. We also saw...
The Bike Tree
Years ago, a woman was going to have a dead tree taken down in her front yard. Her 8 grandchildren had a different idea. They asked that the tree be saved and if they could decorate it. Little did grandma know that they were going to spray paint the...
Easter 2012
This year Easter was spent hiking and exploring with my wife. We hiked Kreutzberg Canyon and Crownridge Canyon Natural Areas birding and enjoying the end of wild flower season. Many of the hilltops outside of San Antonio have been scraped cleaned and...
Visitor at the mailbox
Still trying to figure out what kind?
LBJ Ranch
Several weeks ago, I had the opportunity of riding a fund raiser cycling event up in the hill country. It was staged from the runway on the LBJ ranch and Pres. Johnson’s daughter Luci Baines Johnson was the grand marshal. A truly fun day.
April 4th birds
Finally took a few minutes to bird today after Tina spotted 2 Scissor-tail flycatchers in the pasture.