Last week (end of March) I was out at Dyess AFB monitoring bluebird nest boxes on the golf course when a large dark object in the top of a mesquite tree caught my eye. A Swainson’s Hawk! I got the scope out, attached the camera to it, and took the picture here that you see. […]

Kathy Hampton left town the other day to see her new granddaughter. When she returned she found an Inca Dove in a motherly way, sitting on a nest made in one of the hanging baskets on her front porch. A digiscoped image was taken from the street (so as not to disturb mother). When the […]

This Great-horned Owl was spotted on one of the towers out at the Waste Water Treatment Plant in Jones County on March 11, 2006. Owls are among the first resident birds to nest. This female will incubate her eggs for about 30 days; the chicks will leave the nest five weeks later but stay nearby […]

McCowan’s and Lapland Longspurs hunkered down in a field during our weekend cold spell. Click on the title to find out where.