I’m thinking cool thoughts just now as I prepare for 102F at 4pm when I’m going to be outside for today’s football game. Here’s...
Painted Buntings (Passerina ciris) are our local star bird since the adult males are a riot of colour. I took this picture at Pedernales Falls State Park...
White-Winged Doves (Zenaida asiatica) are one of the most common birds in our area and, as such, I seldom pay them much attention. At Pedernales Falls...
A Black-crested Titmouse (Baeolophus atricristatus) peeks around a tree trunk in Pedernales Falls State Park near Johnson City, Texas on Saturday, August...
A Lesser Goldfinch (Spinus psaltria) feeding on a millet head at Nutty Brown Farm on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
A female Black-chinned Hummingbird feeding on a sunflower at Nutty Brown Farm, Austin, Texas on Friday, July 10th, 2026.
I’ll finish this series of bird pictures with one that seems rather appropriate for today, 4th of July. We spotted this Bald Eagle (Haliaeetus leucocephalus)...
A Southern Rockhopper penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) seen on New Island, one of the Falkland Islands, on December 19th, 2024.
A Northern Giant Petrel (Macronectes Halli) soaring over the Scotia Sea between the Falkland Islands and South Georgia on December 21st, 2024. I originally...
An Imperial Cormorant (Leucocarbo atriceps) preening itself in a rookery on New Island in the Falkland Islands, December 19th, 2024.
A Brown Skua (Stercorarius antarcticus), also known as an Antarctic Skua, seen bathing at Gold Harbour, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024. Fans of the movie...
A Black-Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) seen on the shoreline at Ushuaia, Tierra Del Fuego, Argentina on December 16th, 2024.
A South Georgia Pintail (Anas georgica georgica) seen among the rocks on the shoreline at Gold Harbour, South Georgia on December 25th, 2024.
It’s time to switch gears so I’ve been delving into the archives again and found some unposted bird images. Here’s one I took in Alaska...
Here’s another of the photos of the White-Faced Heron (Egretta novaehollandiae) that I spent some time observing as they fished off the beach in front...
Happy New Year! I took a wander down to the Sigasiga Sands shore again this morning and spent some time watching a group of White Faced Herons (Egretta...
Continuing the theme of “birds looking to the left”, here’s a Southern Rockhopper Penguin (Eudyptes chrysocome) checking out the visitors...
Here’s another bird we saw frequently during our Antarctica trip last year. We stumbled upon this Southern Giant Petrel chick (Macronectes giganteus)...
A Black-Crowned Night Heron (Nycticorax nycticorax) seen fishing along the shoreline in Ushuaia, Argentina on December 16th, 2024.
I’m interrupting my Longhorn Band photos to inject some from the expedition to South Georgia last year. Today marks exactly a year since Drew and I headed...
