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10.09.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Nice walk at La Puerta, 9/9/25

I was going to go to the Falcon area today, but as I approached the Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR's La Puerta tract on the east side of Rio Gr...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

25.08.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Willacy County Stuff, 8/12/25

A couple of days ago I was playing with iNaturalist and discovered I was not first in the butterfly species rankings for Willacy County. Th...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

08.08.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Brown Noddy at Boca Chica Jetty, 8/2/25

Not much has been going on lately birdwise. I've been spending most of my time with insects. But yesterday afternoon the WhatsApp dinged. ...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

06.05.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: La Puerta Tract Migrants, 5/5/25

This morning my goal was to head west to Salineno and Falcon State Park to look for spring migrants for Starr County. But I got started a l...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

23.04.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Odd Day at South Padre Island, 4/21/25

The weather forecast said a cold front was stalled just north of us and cloudy, humid, drippy weather was in store for the Rio Grande Valley...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

13.04.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Migrant Shorebirds, 4/11/25

I ran up tp Falcon State Park yesterday and was surprised to find a single American Golden-Plover on a rocky spit on the Starr County side. ...

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30.03.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: SPI Warblers after Record Flood, 11/28/25

We have been suffering from severe drought here in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of south Texas. The winter fronts that passed though gave on...

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27.03.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Amur Stonechat at Anahuac NWR, 3/25/25

Back on Dec 19, 2024 David Sarkozi and Dave Hanson found an unusual passerine while working the Christmas Bird Count at Jocelyn Nungaray NWR...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

23.03.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Ruff at Laguna Vista Reservoir, 3/21/25

I woke up a little late this morning. I was thinking about heading west upriver to Salineno, but I dawdled so long with coffee and breakfas...

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19.02.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Long chase for a dead Ross's Gull. 2/6/25

I hate birding. Or maybe I should say I hate chasing lifers. Last Friday a rare Ross's Gull was found on a flooded playa south of Dodge C...

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28.01.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: National Butterfly Center 1/26/25

It was a nice warm day after the cold spell of last week so I ran over to the National Butterfly Center to see what was flying. Well, there...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

20.01.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Quinta Mazatlan, 1/17/25

A couple of days ago I ran over to Quinta Mazatlan to check out the butterflies but there weren't any so I switched to birds. There were a ...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

14.01.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Santa Ana NWR, 1/12/25

After a week of cold, by our standards, weather I decided to take advantage of a sunny warm day to check out Santa Ana NWR and put some bird...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

08.01.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Gray Gull at Brownsville Landfill, 1/4/25

As I was on my way back from the Yellow-headed Caracara, I think it was while I was eating gorditas de barbacoa at the Taqueria Guadaljara i...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

07.01.2025

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Yellow-headed Caracara at Galveston Sea Wall, 1/3/25

Way back last June an immature Yellow-headed Caracara was photographed in a coastal park in Seabrook southeast of Houston. A few lucky bird...

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31.12.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Grace's Warbler at Oliveira Pk, Brownsville 12/30/24

Yesterday Michelle David was birding at Oliveira Park in Brownsville, famous for its roosting parrots, when she found a warbler that initial...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

17.12.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: National Butterfly Center stuff 12/15/24

It's been a good fall for unusual butterflies in the Rio Grande Valley so I have been spending quite a bit of time at the National Butterfly...

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20.11.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Sabine's Gull at Port Mansfield, 11/18/24

Saturday Evan Farese found an immature Sabine's Gull at the Fred Stone County Park in Port Mansfield. I've seen a few through the years wit...

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13.11.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Some Sweet Starr County Stuff, 11-11-24

I ran up river this morning with the plan being to check out bugs and birds at Salineno and then check the same at Falcon State Park. Three...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

01.11.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Piping Plover Mob at South Padre Island, 10-30-24

After a so-so day of looking for migrant passerines at South Padre Island, I decided to run up to Beach Access #4 and look for interesting s...

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24.10.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Black Skimmer at Falcon Lake, 10/18/24

Well after the major faux pas on my last post, I quit birding and switched to bugs. Just kidding. But lately I have been entering a lot of...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

09.08.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Western Flycatcher at South Padre Island, 8/8/24

I ran out to South Padre Island this morning to see what early migrant passerines might be about. A stop at the Sheepshead lot turned up a...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

08.08.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: A Butterfly Trip to SE Arizona, 7/8-11/14

Last month some really good butterflies were being found in the high elevations of Southeast Arizona, in particular the Chirichaua and Pinal...

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22.06.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Magnificent Day! 6/20/24

The Central American Gyre has been churning for a couple of weeks over the Central American Isthmus and finally produced Tropcal Storm Alber...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

15.06.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Crimson-collared Grosbeak at Santa Ana NWR, 6/14/24

This morning I ran over to Sana Ana NWR to look for butterflies. As I walked to the visitor's center a calling Northern Beardless-Tyrannule...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

09.06.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Last Shorebirds of Spring, SPI 6-7-24

This morning I thought I would head east to get out of the heat and maybe make a run up the beach at South Padre Island in the eternal searc...

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17.05.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Driving the Beach at SPI, 5/15/24

Yesterday afternoon Justin LeClaire found an Arctic Tern on the beach at South Padre Island while doing shorebird surveys. Arctic Terns pas...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

12.05.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Another Mexican Violetear at South Padre Island, 5-10-24

Well a cool front with a shift of winds was forecast for today so I headed out to South Padre Island for some late spring migration action. ...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

09.05.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Yturria Brush, 5/7/24

Yesterday I made a butterfly run out to the Yturria Brush tract of the Lower Rio Grande Valley NWR. The high temperature for tomorrow is fo...

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06.05.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Third ABA record Mottled Owl at Santa Margarita Ranch, 5/4/24

On February 23, 1983 a dead Mottled Owl was found along the road near Bentsen State Park. This was the first record of this tropical owl sp...

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04.05.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Mangrove Cuckoo at South Padre Island, 5-2-24

I've been busy with birds and butterflies lately and neglecting real life stuff, so today it was time to hunker down and get some chores don...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

01.05.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Black Noddy at the Port Aransas Jetty, 4/29/24

A Black Noddy was photographed on Friday afternoon on the Port Aransas Jetty. I was unable to run up there over the weekend but got up dark...

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19.04.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Southern Lapwing and Stuff, 4/17/24

The past few days I've seen some really nice photos of the first Texas record Southern Lapwing at the Llano Grande golf course in Mercedes. ...

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16.04.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Shorebirdomania at the Sugar House Pond, 4/14/24

After seeing the Southern Lapwing yesterday, I decided to leave the gathering crowd and head up to the Sugar House pond to look for the Huds...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

15.04.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Southern Lapwing in Mercedes, 4/14/24

After an unprecedented fall and winter birding season in the Rio Grande Valley of south Texas, this spring has continued with more amazing r...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

13.04.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Flame-colored Tanager, Black-capped Vireo at Quinta Mazatlan, 4/12/24

The Valley's four young guns, Ryan Rodriguez, Nolan Walker, Simon Kiacz and Zach Johnson have been leaving a path of destruction in their wa...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

10.04.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Mexican Violetear on South Padre Island, 4/8/24

Yesterday was the much anticipated occurrence of a total eclipse of the sun across much of the United States. Here in the Rio Grande Valley...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

07.03.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Downy Woodpecker on South Padre Island, 3/6/24

On this past Oct 22, Gray Hawk researcher and all around fantastic birder Evan Farese found the first Cameron County record of a Downy Woodp...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

16.02.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Green-tailed Towhee, Mission, TX 2/15/24

I was birding today south of Mission when I ran into a couple who had just found a Green-tailed Towhee. There's been quite a few in the Ri...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

14.02.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Resaca de la Palma, 2/13/24

Today I decided to make a try for the Cassin's Vireo at Resaca de la Palma State Park near Brownsville. Even though I still need that speci...

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Antshrike's Bird Blog - Nature & Animals

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Nice walk at La Puerta, 9/9/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Willacy County Stuff, 8/12/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Brown Noddy at Boca Chica Jetty, 8/2/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: La Puerta Tract Migrants, 5/5/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Odd Day at South Padre Island, 4/21/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Migrant Shorebirds, 4/11/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: SPI Warblers after Record Flood, 11/28/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Amur Stonechat at Anahuac NWR, 3/25/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Ruff at Laguna Vista Reservoir, 3/21/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Long chase for a dead Ross's Gull. 2/6/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: National Butterfly Center 1/26/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Quinta Mazatlan, 1/17/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Santa Ana NWR, 1/12/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Gray Gull at Brownsville Landfill, 1/4/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Yellow-headed Caracara at Galveston Sea Wall, 1/3/25

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Grace's Warbler at Oliveira Pk, Brownsville 12/30/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: National Butterfly Center stuff 12/15/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Sabine's Gull at Port Mansfield, 11/18/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Some Sweet Starr County Stuff, 11-11-24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Piping Plover Mob at South Padre Island, 10-30-24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Black Skimmer at Falcon Lake, 10/18/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Western Flycatcher at South Padre Island, 8/8/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: A Butterfly Trip to SE Arizona, 7/8-11/14

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Magnificent Day! 6/20/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Crimson-collared Grosbeak at Santa Ana NWR, 6/14/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Last Shorebirds of Spring, SPI 6-7-24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Driving the Beach at SPI, 5/15/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Another Mexican Violetear at South Padre Island, 5-10-24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Yturria Brush, 5/7/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Third ABA record Mottled Owl at Santa Margarita Ranch, 5/4/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Mangrove Cuckoo at South Padre Island, 5-2-24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Black Noddy at the Port Aransas Jetty, 4/29/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Southern Lapwing and Stuff, 4/17/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Shorebirdomania at the Sugar House Pond, 4/14/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Southern Lapwing in Mercedes, 4/14/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Flame-colored Tanager, Black-capped Vireo at Quinta Mazatlan, 4/12/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Mexican Violetear on South Padre Island, 4/8/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Downy Woodpecker on South Padre Island, 3/6/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Green-tailed Towhee, Mission, TX 2/15/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Resaca de la Palma, 2/13/24

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