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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...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

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...

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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...

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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. ...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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...

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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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08.02.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Limpkin at Salineno, 2-7-24

It was forecast to be windy today so I decided to head west as the wind is usually not as bad out there. Since my last trip to Falcon State...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

03.02.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Fan-tailed Warbler at UTRGV Brownsville, 2/2/24

Back in December the second ever for Texas, Fan-tailed Warbler, was found by Evan Farese on the University of Texas Rio Grande Valley campus...

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30.01.2024

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Crane Hawk, 2nd US Record at Salineno, 1/29/23

This morning I woke up and thought about taking another stab at the Fan-tailed Warbler at the University of Texas campus in Brownsville. I ...

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20.12.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Yellow-footed Gull at Amarillo, 12/16/23

A week ago an amazing first Texas record of Yellow-footed Gull at Southeast Park in Amarillo was posted on the Texbirds Facebook group. Ac...

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04.12.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Gray-collared Becard at Rasaca de la Palma St Pk, 12/3/23

Eight days ago visiting birders found the third US record of Gray-collared Becard at Resaca de La Palma State Park near Brownsville. I rush...

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29.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Pine Grosbeak at Palo Duro Rerservoir, 11/27/23

So far birding has been pretty fantastic in Texas this fall. The Corpus Christi area has a Cattle Tyrant, Eastern Marbled Godwit and three ...

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25.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Roadside Hawk at Resaca de la Palma, 11/24/23

I woke up at 5am this morning and thought about getting up to give an early try for the Roadside Hawk at Resaca de la Palma State Park in Ca...

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19.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Limpkin near San Benito, TX 11/18/23

The Rio Grande Valley Limpkin invasion continues! Estero Llano Grande State Park has had as many a three in the flood channel. A first Sta...

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18.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Bar-tailed Godwit at Portland, TX 9/17/23

Last winter Skip Cantrell found a Bar-tailed Godwit on the soccer practice fields in Portland just north of Corpus Christi. It was the seco...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

13.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: First Cattle Tyrant for USA at Corpus Christi, 11/12/23

I was sitting at the computer, editing some photos from out trip to Australia four years ago. Woops, I guess I forgot about them. Anyway t...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

12.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, Sept 9-14, 2016

After finishing the blog posts for my Argentina trip, I decided, while I'm in the mood, I should finish my report for my trip to Fraser's Hi...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

11.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Blackie the Evil Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 11/3/23

It's been a very good fall for hummingbirds at our Progreso Lakes yard. This dark Archilochus hummer really got my attention. I guess it's...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

11.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Argentina Sept 12-24, 2023

This past September I enjoyed two weeks of birding independently in Argentina. I spent a few days in Buenos Aires and the rest of my time in...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

03.11.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Cassin's Kingbirds at South Padre Island 11/1/23

Late yesterday afternoon Evan Farese made another great find. He had photos of a Cassin's Kingbird at the Convention Center on South Padre ...

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26.10.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: American Flamingos at Laguna Atascosa NWR, 10/23/23

Sunday afternoon I had just finished exercising and was eating dinner and watching football when the WhatsApp dinged. Evan Farese had just ...

Antshrike's Bird Blog

13.10.2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Red-billed Pigeon at Progreso Lakes, 10/4/23

This warm muggy morning I was sitting on the porch here at Progreso Lakes, watching the hummingbird feeders and thinking about how it's been...

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Antshrike's Bird Blog - Nature & Animals

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

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Limpkin at Salineno, 2-7-24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Fan-tailed Warbler at UTRGV Brownsville, 2/2/24

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Crane Hawk, 2nd US Record at Salineno, 1/29/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Yellow-footed Gull at Amarillo, 12/16/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Gray-collared Becard at Rasaca de la Palma St Pk, 12/3/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Pine Grosbeak at Palo Duro Rerservoir, 11/27/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Roadside Hawk at Resaca de la Palma, 11/24/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Limpkin near San Benito, TX 11/18/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Bar-tailed Godwit at Portland, TX 9/17/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: First Cattle Tyrant for USA at Corpus Christi, 11/12/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Fraser's Hill, Malaysia, Sept 9-14, 2016

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Blackie the Evil Ruby-throated Hummingbird, 11/3/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Argentina Sept 12-24, 2023

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Cassin's Kingbirds at South Padre Island 11/1/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: American Flamingos at Laguna Atascosa NWR, 10/23/23

Antshrike's Bird Blog: Red-billed Pigeon at Progreso Lakes, 10/4/23

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