Going Back on Down to Texas

 Hello Folks, 

I'm down in Texas with our new MicroMinnie Travel Trailer.  I'm picking up Torrey and Miriam in Houston on Saturday and we'll be spending time birding the usual hotspots of the Gulf Coast, Rio Grande Valley, and the Texas Hill Country. If you'd like to follow along you can subscribe to this Blog and you'll receive a notice when I have posted something. My intent is to update everyday.  

Cheers, Forest 

 Campsite along the way 

4-22-21

I pulled into High Island about 4:30 today and I dropped off the truck and trailer and hustled over to Boy Scouts Woods on foot. Along the way I got great looks at a male Rose-breasted Grosbeak. No photos as it was on a feeder in someone's yard right in front of a window. I hear they have things called guns in Texas so I figured that's a photo that I'll have to get somewhere else. 

There's a pretty strong south wind so the migrating birds are not stopping over to fuel up. They get while the getting is good and ride the wind on up into the Mid-West. The ones that were around were pretty shy as they had all day to feed and thus noticed when you came near them. There's a north wind forecast for Sunday and if that holds we should have a bunch of hungry birds (isn't that a game?). And when the birds are hungry they could care less about you. And with a north wind there should be a whole passel of them around. 

Here are a few highlights from today's bird-walk. 

                                                                     Wood Thrush

                                                                          Veery

                                                                   Scarlet Tanager